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strongly influenced by insect host (RAPD and RFLP, Maurer et al., 1997; RFLP, Viaud et<br />

al., 1996; ITS, Neuveglise et al., 1994). Again, this conclusion is refuted by other studies<br />

(ITS sequencing and RFLP, Coates et al., 2002; RAPD, Castrillo et al., 2004; Berreta et al.,<br />

1998; Urtz and Rice, 1997).<br />

The fungus Beauveria bassiana has been studied for more than 150 years and an asexual<br />

stage has been assumed for the most part of that period. In recent years, molecular studies<br />

have i<strong>de</strong>ntified Beauveria as the asexual stage of Cordyceps spp., which reproduces by a<br />

sexual cycle. Despite of the evi<strong>de</strong>nce for this linking, it seems that Beauveria spp. is<br />

asexual for the most of its lifecycle. Un<strong>de</strong>r this condition, some genetic recombination still<br />

is possible through parasexual cycle, during which vegetatively compatible hyphae fuse to<br />

exchange genetic material (Paccola-Meirelles and Azevedo, 1991). However, the<br />

parasexual cycle in this species is <strong>control</strong>ed by a strict recognition system and many<br />

different vegetative compatibility groups can be i<strong>de</strong>ntified in a sample (Castrillo et al.,<br />

2004). Consequently, the genetic exchange seems quite restricted in B. bassiana s.l.<br />

Another plausible explanation for the phylogenetic pattern showed in the Figure 1 is related<br />

what Rehner and Buckley (2005) proposed as cryptic speciation into the morphologically<br />

<strong>de</strong>fined B. bassiana. These authors reported that globally collected B. bassiana would be<br />

paraphyletic according to a two nuclear genes phylogeny, the elongation factor 1 alpha<br />

(EF1-α) and the ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS). The combined analysis divi<strong>de</strong>d<br />

the previously i<strong>de</strong>ntified B. bassiana isolates in two cla<strong>de</strong>s separated by B. brongniartii.<br />

The B locus phylogeny mostly resembles this pattern and consequently a subset of Chilean<br />

isolates, representative of the major B fragment cla<strong>de</strong>s, was additionally sequenced for<br />

EF1-α (Devotto and Rehner, unpub. data). One isolate was more related to B. amorpha than<br />

B. bassiana, while one strain was grouped in one of the B. bassiana clusters and the<br />

remaining nine isolates were inclu<strong>de</strong>d in the paraphyletic B. bassiana cluster. It will be<br />

necessary to inclu<strong>de</strong> a larger Chilean sample in this proposed phylogeny to test if the<br />

Chilean population mirrors the pattern <strong>de</strong>tected for the Beauveria genus.<br />

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