肉座菌目一新科（英文）

在吉林、河南和湖北等地大蚕蛾科昆虫的虫茧上发现一种肉座菌目真菌,其子实体非子座型,子囊壳表生、肉质、梨形、淡橙色,子囊长柱形、具帽状加厚的顶端和细长的顶孔,子囊孢子线形、多分隔、易断裂。ITS、LSU、SSU多基因序列分析的结果表明,它属于肉座菌目,并与Flammocladiaceae和线虫草科Ophiocordycipitaceae系统发育关系略近。形态学与序列分析的结果支持将其处理为一新属(茧壳菌属Cocoonihabitus)中的一个新种(茧壳菌Cocoonihabitus sinensis),并代表了该目的一个新科(茧壳菌科Cocoonihabitaceae)。     

Schmidingerothrix extraordinaria nov. gen., nov. spec., a secondarily oligomerized hypotrich (Ciliophora, Hypotricha, Schmidingerotrichidae nov. fam.) from hypersaline soils of Africa

Schmidingerothrix extraordinaria nov. gen., nov. spec. was discovered in hypersaline soils from Namibia and Egypt. Its morphology and ontogenesis were studied with standard methods. Schmidingerothrix extraordinaria is a highly flexible, slender hypotrich with an average size of 90 × 15 μm. Likely, it prefers a salinity around 100‰ and feeds mainly on bacteria. Schmidingerothrix is extraordinary in having a frayed buccal lip, three-rowed adoral membranelles, only one frontal cirrus, a distinct gap between frontal and ventral adoral membranelles, and a miniaturized first frontal membranelle, while a paroral membrane, dorsal bristle rows, and buccal, transverse, and caudal cirri are absent. The ontogenesis is simple: the opisthe oral apparatus and frontoventral ciliature originate de novo, while parental structures are involved in the development of the ciliature of the proter. This special organization is used to define a new family, the Schmidingerotrichidae, which is likely related to the Cladotrichidae. Schmidingerothrix extraordinaria is very likely a secondarily oligomerized hypotrich, and the reduction occurred possibly very long ago because no traces of the ancestral ciliature remained in the ontogenetic processes. Possibly, the simple ciliature is an adaptation to highly saline habitats, where competition is low and bacterial food abundant.     

Suttonium praedicator nov. gen., nov. sp. (radiolaria,nassellaria) et la famille des Suttonidae nov. fam.

The peculiar morphology of the abdomen from a new radiolaria of the south-equatorial Pacific Ocean allows us to create a new family.     

New fungal genera, Tectonidula gen. nov. for Calosphaeria-like fungi with holoblastic-denticulate conidiogenesis and Natantiella gen. nov. for three species segregated from Ceratostomella

Two morphologically similar groups of ascomycetes with globose to subglobose perithecia, elongate necks, unitunicate asci floating freely at maturity, and hyaline ascospores currently placed in Calosphaeria s. lat. and Ceratostomella s. lat., respectively, are studied. The Calosphaeria-like fungi have groups of perithecia growing between cortex and wood, arranged in circular groups with converging necks and piercing the cortex in a common point; the asci with a shallow apical ring and U- to horseshoe-shaped hyaline ascospores are compared with Calosphaeria pulchella, the type species of the genus. Conidiogenesis of the investigated Calosphaeria-like fungi is holoblastic-denticulate; ramichloridium-like and sporothrix-like conidiophores and conidia were formed in vitro. Ascospore and ascus morphology, structure of the ascal apex, ascogenous system, mode of conidiogenesis and the large subunit rRNA sequences of this group differ considerably from C. pulchella and both groups are unrelated. Thus a new genus, Tectonidula, is described with two accepted species, T. hippocrepida and T. fagi; they are separated by ascospore and ascus morphology and holoblastic-denticulate conidiogenesis from the core species of Calosphaeria. The placement of Tectonidula among perithecial ascomycetes is discussed. The relationship of Tectonidula with Barbatosphaeria and two ramichloridium-like hyphomycetous genera Rhodoveronaea and Myrmecridium is investigated. Three species formerly attributed to Ceratostomella are studied. The revision of the herbarium type specimen and fresh material of Ceratostomella ligneola revealed that it is conspecific with Ceratostomella ampullasca and Ceratostomella similis. The LSU phylogeny clearly separated C. ligneola from Ceratostomella s. str. and morphologically similar Lentomitella. On the basis of molecular sequence data and detailed comparison of morphology of asci, ascospores and ascogenous system the genus Natantiella is described for C. ligneola with C. ampullasca and C. similis as its synonyms. Natantiella produced sterile mycelium in vitro.     

Mzabimyces algeriensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a halophilic filamentous actinobacterium isolated from a Saharan soil,and proposal of Mzabimycetaceae fam. nov.

Three halophilic mycelium-forming actinobacteria, strains H195^T, H150 and H151, were isolated from a Saharan soil sample collected from Béni-isguen in the Mzab region (Ghardaïa, South of Algeria) and subjected to a polyphasic taxonomic characterisation. These strains were observed to show an aerial mycelium differentiated into coccoid spore chains and fragmented substrate mycelium. Comparative analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that the highest sequence similarities were to Saccharopolyspora qijiaojingensis YIM 91168^T (92.02 % to H195^T). Phylogenetic analyses showed that the strains H195^T, H150 and H151 represent a distinct phylogenetic lineage. The cell-wall hydrolysate was found to contain meso-diaminopimelic acid, and the diagnostic whole-cell sugars were identified as arabinose and galactose. The major cellular fatty acids were identified as iso-C_15:0, iso-C_16:0, iso-C_17:0 and anteiso-C_17:0. The diagnostic phospholipid detected was phosphatidylcholine and MK-9 (H₄) was found to be the predominant menaquinone. The genomic DNA G+C content of strain H195^T was 68.2 mol%. On the basis of its phenotypic features and phylogenetic position, we propose that strain H195^T represents a novel genus and species, Mzabimyces algeriensis gen. nov., sp. nov., within a new family, Mzabimycetaceae fam. nov. The type strain of M. algeriensis is strain H195^T (=DSM 46680^T = MTCC 12101^T).