Construction of a dataset for the gene nrLSU to support the identification of Cantharellus at Langbian mountain, Lam Dong

Abstract

Fungal species of Cantharellales order are found worldwide including Europe, Africa, Asia, and NorthAmerica. This clade includes two smaller, separate, but closely related genera Cantharellus and Craterellus.Cantharellus was firstly identified in the middle of the 17th century. Besides traditional classification based onmorphology, molecular phylogeny of the nuclear ribosomal large subunit gene (nrLSU) can be an effective tool toprovide more information during species identification for this group. In this current report, a dataset of the nrLSUgene including 60 sequences of Cantharellus species and 1 sequence belonging to Craterellus (outgroup), wasobtained from Genbank. Phylogenetic analyses by MEGA 6.0 showed a monophyletic relationship between the sixwell-established clades, namely Cantharellus (Clade 1), Rubrinus (Clade 2), Cinnabarinus (Clade 3),Parvocantharellus (Clade 4), Pseudocantharellus (Clade 5) and subgenus Afrocantharellus (Clade 6) similar to thatof morphological classification. Therefore, this dataset is efficient to support the identification of the fungal samples,collected at the Langbian Mountain, Lam Dong.