Ancestral state reconstruction infers phytopathogenic origins of sooty blotch and flyspeck fungi on apple

• Main Authors: Ismail, Siti Izera, Batzer, Jean Carlson, Harrington, Thomas C., Crous, Pedro W., Lavrov, Dennis V., Li, Huanyu, Gleason, Mark L.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Mycological Society of America 2015
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43770/1/Ancestral%20state%20reconstruction%20infers%20phytopathogenic%20origins.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/43770/; http://www.public.iastate.edu/~tcharrin/Ancestral.pdf

Members of the sooty blotch and flyspeck (SBFS) complex are epiphytic fungi in the Ascomycota that cause economically damaging blemishes of apples worldwide. SBFS fungi are polyphyletic, but approx. 96% of SBFS species are in the Capnodiales. Evolutionary origins of SBFS fungi remain unclear, so we...