Table 1.
Fungal isolates from gorgonians Leptogorgia obscura and Leptogorgia sp. from the Eastern Pacific of Ecuador and the resulting molecular identification based on phylogenetic analysis.
Table 2.
Genbank rDNA ITS reference sequences for fungal species used in phylogenetic analysis to identify fungal isolates from Ecuadorian gorgonians.
Fig 1.
Bayesian out-group-rooted cladogram inferred from ITS rRNA gene sequences of fungal isolates from Leptogorgia obscura and Leptogorgia sp. from the Eastern Ecuadorian Pacific.
Numbers placed above and below the internodes are, respectively, PP and BS of the Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood analyses.
Fig 2.
Pie charts showing isolation frequency of different fungal isolates from each host gorgonian species, Leptogorgia obscura and Leptogorgia sp. of the Eastern Ecuadorian Pacific.
Fig 3.
Scanning electron microscopy showing characteristic features of conidiophores of Aspergillus sydowii isolated from Leptogorgia obscura and Leptogorgia sp. of the Eastern Ecuadorian Pacific: (A) conidiophore structure with metule (m), phialide (p), and globose conidia (c); (B) morphological features of conidia head with a vesicle characteristic (v), metulae (m), phialide (p), and globose conidia (c); (C) phialide (p) and mature globose conidia (c) with verruculose ornamentation (*); (D) globose conidia (c) with verruculose ornamentation (*).