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. 2021 Jul;111(7):1064-1079.
doi: 10.1094/PHYTO-08-20-0330-LE. Epub 2021 Sep 9.

Phylogenomic Analysis of a 55.1-kb 19-Gene Dataset Resolves a Monophyletic Fusarium that Includes the Fusarium solani Species Complex

David M Geiser  1 Abdullah M S Al-Hatmi  2 Takayuki Aoki  3 Tsutomu Arie  4 Virgilio Balmas  5 Irene Barnes  6 Gary C Bergstrom  7 Madan K Bhattacharyya  8 Cheryl L Blomquist  9 Robert L Bowden  10 Balázs Brankovics  11 Daren W Brown  12 Lester W Burgess  13 Kathryn Bushley  14 Mark Busman  12 José F Cano-Lira  15 Joseph D Carrillo  16 Hao-Xun Chang  17 Chi-Yu Chen  18 Wanquan Chen  19 Martin Chilvers  20 Sofia Chulze  21 Jeffrey J Coleman  22 Christina A Cuomo  23 Z Wilhelm de Beer  6 G Sybren de Hoog  24 Johanna Del Castillo-Múnera  25 Emerson M Del Ponte  26 Javier Diéguez-Uribeondo  27 Antonio Di Pietro  28 Véronique Edel-Hermann  29 Wade H Elmer  30 Lynn Epstein  25 Akif Eskalen  25 Maria Carmela Esposto  31 Kathryne L Everts  32 Sylvia P Fernández-Pavía  33 Gilvan Ferreira da Silva  34 Nora A Foroud  35 Gerda Fourie  6 Rasmus J N Frandsen  36 Stanley Freeman  37 Michael Freitag  38 Omer Frenkel  37 Kevin K Fuller  39 Tatiana Gagkaeva  40 Donald M Gardiner  41 Anthony E Glenn  42 Scott E Gold  42 Thomas R Gordon  25 Nancy F Gregory  43 Marieka Gryzenhout  44 Josep Guarro  45 Beth K Gugino  1 Santiago Gutierrez  46 Kim E Hammond-Kosack  47 Linda J Harris  48 Mónika Homa  49 Cheng-Fang Hong  18 László Hornok  50 Jenn-Wen Huang  18 Macit Ilkit  51 Adriaana Jacobs  52 Karin Jacobs  53 Cong Jiang  54 María Del Mar Jiménez-Gasco  1 Seogchan Kang  1 Matthew T Kasson  55 Kemal Kazan  41 John C Kennell  56 Hye-Seon Kim  12 H Corby Kistler  57 Gretchen A Kuldau  1 Tomasz Kulik  58 Oliver Kurzai  59 Imane Laraba  12 Matthew H Laurence  60 Theresa Lee  61 Yin-Won Lee  62 Yong-Hwan Lee  62 John F Leslie  63 Edward C Y Liew  60 Lily W Lofton  42 Antonio F Logrieco  64 Manuel S López-Berges  28 Alicia G Luque  65 Erik Lysøe  66 Li-Jun Ma  67 Robert E Marra  30 Frank N Martin  68 Sara R May  1 Susan P McCormick  12 Chyanna McGee  1 Jacques F Meis  24 Quirico Migheli  69 N M I Mohamed Nor  70 Michel Monod  71 Antonio Moretti  64 Diane Mostert  72 Giuseppina Mulè  64 Françoise Munaut  73 Gary P Munkvold  74 Paul Nicholson  75 Marcio Nucci  76 Kerry O'Donnell  12 Matias Pasquali  77 Ludwig H Pfenning  78 Anna Prigitano  31 Robert H Proctor  12 Stéphane Ranque  79 Stephen A Rehner  80 Martijn Rep  81 Gerardo Rodríguez-Alvarado  33 Lindy Joy Rose  72 Mitchell G Roth  82 Carmen Ruiz-Roldán  28 Amgad A Saleh  83 Baharuddin Salleh  70 Hyunkyu Sang  84 María Mercedes Scandiani  65 Jonathan Scauflaire  85 David G Schmale 3rd  86 Dylan P G Short  87 Adnan Šišić  88 Jason A Smith  89 Christopher W Smyth  90 Hokyoung Son  62 Ellie Spahr  55 Jason E Stajich  91 Emma Steenkamp  6 Christian Steinberg  92 Rajagopal Subramaniam  48 Haruhisa Suga  93 Brett A Summerell  60 Antonella Susca  64 Cassandra L Swett  25 Christopher Toomajian  63 Terry J Torres-Cruz  1 Anna M Tortorano  31 Martin Urban  47 Lisa J Vaillancourt  94 Gary E Vallad  16 Theo A J van der Lee  11 Dan Vanderpool  95 Anne D van Diepeningen  11 Martha M Vaughan  12 Eduard Venter  96 Marcele Vermeulen  97 Paul E Verweij  24 Altus Viljoen  72 Cees Waalwijk  11 Emma C Wallace  1 Grit Walther  59 Jie Wang  98 Todd J Ward  12 Brian L Wickes  99 Nathan P Wiederhold  100 Michael J Wingfield  6 Ana K M Wood  47 Jin-Rong Xu  100 Xiao-Bing Yang  75 Tapani Yli-Mattila  101 Sung-Hwan Yun  102 Latiffah Zakaria  70 Hao Zhang  19 Ning Zhang  103 Sean X Zhang  104 Xue Zhang  54
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Phylogenomic Analysis of a 55.1-kb 19-Gene Dataset Resolves a Monophyletic Fusarium that Includes the Fusarium solani Species Complex

David M Geiser et al. Phytopathology. 2021 Jul.
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Abstract

Scientific communication is facilitated by a data-driven, scientifically sound taxonomy that considers the end-user's needs and established successful practice. In 2013, the Fusarium community voiced near unanimous support for a concept of Fusarium that represented a clade comprising all agriculturally and clinically important Fusarium species, including the F. solani species complex (FSSC). Subsequently, this concept was challenged in 2015 by one research group who proposed dividing the genus Fusarium into seven genera, including the FSSC described as members of the genus Neocosmospora, with subsequent justification in 2018 based on claims that the 2013 concept of Fusarium is polyphyletic. Here, we test this claim and provide a phylogeny based on exonic nucleotide sequences of 19 orthologous protein-coding genes that strongly support the monophyly of Fusarium including the FSSC. We reassert the practical and scientific argument in support of a genus Fusarium that includes the FSSC and several other basal lineages, consistent with the longstanding use of this name among plant pathologists, medical mycologists, quarantine officials, regulatory agencies, students, and researchers with a stake in its taxonomy. In recognition of this monophyly, 40 species described as genus Neocosmospora were recombined in genus Fusarium, and nine others were renamed Fusarium. Here the global Fusarium community voices strong support for the inclusion of the FSSC in Fusarium, as it remains the best scientific, nomenclatural, and practical taxonomic option available.

Keywords: evolution; fungal pathogens.

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