New Mucorales from opposite ends of the world.

The is a group of ancient fungi with global distribution. In the current study we accessed mucoralean fungi isolated from two countries on opposite sides of the Earth and in different hemispheres: South Korea and Brazil. isolates were obtained from freshwater, soil, invertebrates, and fruit seeds and identified using phenotypic techniques combined with the DNA sequence data. These analyses revealed 15 new species including one that we affiliated to a newly proposed genus, . Names proposed for these 15 new species are , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . Of these new species, 12 were isolated from South Korea: , , , , , , , , , , , and , and three from Brazil: , , and . Niche specificity of these fungi is discussed including newly recorded invertebrate hosts and a new geographic distribution for species of , , , and . Given these findings, we provide an inventory of .

Project(s)

Priority 4: Accelerated Taxonomy

Funder

Funder name	Awards
National Research Foundation of Korea, South Korea	Basic Science Research Program funded by the Ministry of Education (2022R1I1A3068645)
Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea, South Korea	2022M3H9A1082984
National Institute of Biological Resources, South Korea	Survey and Discovery of Indigenous Fungal Species of Korea
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Brazil	Research grant
Fundação de Amparo à Ciência e Tecnologia do Estado de Pernambuco, Brazil	‘Morphological and molecular approaches to understanding the communities of zygosporic fungi in the Atlantic Forest of Pernambuco and Paraíba (APQ-1346-2.12/22)