Rebeca Casique-Valdés‡, Sten Anslan§, Fernando Galindo-García|, Sergio R. Sanchez-Peña|Corresponding author: Sergio R. Sanchez-Peña ( sanchezcheco@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Renan Barbosa © Rebeca Casique-Valdés, Sten Anslan, Fernando Galindo-García, Sergio R. Sanchez-Peña. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Casique-Valdés R, Anslan S, Galindo-García F, Sanchez-Peña SR (2022) New records of fungal pathogens of invertebrates from endemic pine forests in Mexico. Check List 18(1): 67-77. https://doi.org/10.15560/18.1.67 |  |
We report fungal pathogens of invertebrates (FPI) (Entomophthorales, Hypocreales, and Orbiliales) from roots of an endemic Mexican pine, Pinus greggii Engelm. ex Parl., at four primary montane forests using next-generation sequencing. We found twenty-nine OTUs from 18 genera of FPI associated to the roots of P. greggii. New records for Mexico are: Beauveria felina (DC.) J.W.Carmich., Dactylella mammillata S.M. Dixon, Dactylella ramosa Matsushima, Drechslerella brochopaga (Drechsler) M. Scholler, Hagedorn & A. Rubner, Hirsutella minnesotensis Chen, Liu & Chen, Leptobacillium leptobactrum (W.Gams) Zare & W.Gams, Metapochonia variabilis Z.F.Zhang, F.Liu & L.Cai, Monacrosporium leptosporum (Drechsler) A. Rubner, and Simplicillium aogashimaense Nonaka, Kaifuchi & Masuma. A largely unknown array of fungal pathogens of invertebrates are likely to be found in Mexican forests. This work facilitates future analyses of fungal diversity in these primary forests, as well as basic and applied research in biological control.