Projects & Grants
| Taxonomy and diversity of epiphytic mosses and fungi in China. | |
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| Project Id | SGS13/PřF/2018 |
| Main solver | Mgr. Lucie Fialová |
| Period | 1/2018 - 12/2018 |
| Provider | Specifický VŠ výzkum |
| State | finished |
| Anotation | The project is focused on the multidisciplinary issues of taxonomy, ecology and genetics. In particular, changes in species diversity of epiphytic mosses on altitudinal and latitudinal gradients will be studied together with the genetic variability of selected species. The presence of mycologist in the research team will also fill the study in the genus Fomes taxonomy. Here again, a combination of classical and molecular taxonomy will be used. Former study of the moss genus Orthotrichum in China, which has been solved since 2015, brought a number of new data: a) 7 new species of the mosses for China and 14 new for provinces; b) the initial results of distribution modeling indicate that the most suitable area for the presence of the studied species; c) distribution models seems limiting environmental variable for the presence of the studied mosses. The results obtained so far suggest that China has great potential as a studied area in both taxonomic and ecological terms. As part of the project, two-week field trip to Heilongjiang Province (NE part of China) is planned. Surprisingly, only 5 species (from total of 45 ones) of the genus Orthotrichum is known from the province. It is one of the coldest and the most humid area in China, because the weather is influenced by Siberian climate. Thanks to this we expect to find interesting types of bryophytes, including new species for science. In bryology, using new methods of studying of genetic variability increase of describing of new or cryptic species. In particular, the combined methods of morphological and molecular analyzes based on the DNA sequence are used to determine species boundaries. To clarify the variability of moss species, combination of these morphological and molecular analyzes will be used. Selected morphotypes will be subjected to molecular analysis. It is assumed that three to four gene regions, two of the nuclear genome and two of the plastid genome (ITS, ITS2, trnG & trnL-trnF) will be amplified. |
