Table 3.
Support for delimitation of various species/populations using integrative approach consisting of four main components.
| Examined species/populations |
Support from four evaluated components
|
Overall support (3–4/4) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GCPSR | STACEY1 | Single-locus MSC methods2 | Morphology / physiology | ||
| A. campestris | NO | YES (2/2) | YES (12/18) | YES | YES |
| segregation of A. campestris into three species | NO3 | NO (0/2) | NO (6/18) | NO | NO |
| A. candidus | YES | YES (1/2) | NO (7/18) | N/A (trend) | ? |
| A. dobrogensis | YES | YES (1/2) | NO (7/18) | N/A (trend) | ? |
| Aspergillus sp. DTO 244-F1 | N/A | YES (2/2) | YES (11/18) | N/A | ? |
| A. magnus | N/A | YES (2/2) | YES (17/18) | YES | YES |
| A. neotritici | YES | YES (2/2) | YES (18/18) | YES | YES |
| segregation of CCF 4914 and IBT 12659 from A. neotritici | YES | NO (0/2) | NO (3/18) | YES | NO |
| A. pragensis | YES | YES (2/2) | YES (17/18) | YES | YES |
| A. subalbidus | YES | YES (1/2) | YES (17/18) | YES | YES |
| segregation of CCF 6199 and CCF 5642 (pop 6) from A. subalbidus | YES | YES (1/2) | NO (9/18) | NO | NO |
| A. taichungensis | YES | YES (2/2) | YES (13/18) | YES | YES |
| segregation of DTO 266-G2 from A. taichungensis | NO | NO (0/2) | YES (10/18) | NO | NO |
| A. tenebricus | YES | YES (2/2) | YES (13/18) | YES | YES |
MCS – multispecies coalescent model-based methods; N/A – data not available or analysis could not be performed (non-viable strain DTO 244-F1 could not be analyzed phenotypically; species/populations represented by one strains could not be evaluated using GCPSR; a part of A. dobrogensis and A. candidus isolates cannot be distinguished morphologically – see sections Results, Discussion and Taxonomy).
1Support in at least one of the two most probable scenarios with collapseheight parameters 0.007 and 0.01 – see Fig. 4B.
2Support by the majority (at least 10 out of 18) of single-locus methods and their settings, i.e., agreement on the delimitation of species in its exact form or delimitation of smaller entities within it but without any admixture with related species/populations – see Fig. 3.