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Mycologia, 95(1), 2003, pp. 141-147.
© 2003 by The Mycological Society of America

Penicillium brocae, a new species associated with the coffee berry borer in Chiapas, Mexico


Stephen W. Peterson 1

     Microbial Genomics and Bioprocessing Research Unit, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1815 N. University St., Peoria, Illinois, USA 61604

Jeanneth Pérez

     El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Carretera Antiguo Aeropuerto Km 2.5, Tapachula, 30700 Chiapas, Mexico

Fernando E. Vega

     Insect Biocontrol Laboratory, Bldg. 011A, Room 214, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland, USA 20705-2350

Francisco Infante

     El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Carretera Antiguo Aeropuerto Km 2.5, Tapachula, 30700 Chiapas, Mexico

Penicillium brocae is a new monoverticillate species isolated from coffee berry borers collected at coffee plantations in Mexico near Cacahoatán, Chiapas, and from borers reared on artificial diets at ECOSUR laboratory facilities in Tapachula, Chiapas. Phenotypically, it is in Penicillium series Implicatum, but because it does not conform to known species we have described it as new. ITS and large subunit rDNA were sequenced and compared to determine the phylogenetic position of this species. It is most closely related to Penicillium adametzii. Penicillium brocae has only been found in association with the coffee berry borer and is one of several fungi that grow in coffee berry borer galleries. Penicillium brocae may provide the exogenous sterols necessary for the coffee berry borer's development and thus be mutualistically associated with the insect.

Key words: broca, DNA sequences, fungi, internal transcribed spacer, ribosomal DNA, Scolytidae, Trichocomaceae




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