Genetic and plant host differences of Fomes fomentarius in selected parts of Southern Europe

Our study included a total of 36 Fomes fomentarius specimens obtained from Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece and the Czech Republic. After multiple sequence alignment analysis we observed that samples collected in Southern Europe belong to the lineage B with the exception of one specimen from northern Greece.
This work was supported by the Faculty of Science of the University of Ostrava (Czech Republic) under Grants SGS No. 16/PřF/2016 and 10/PřF/2019; Grant Agencies of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic under Grants VEGA No. 1/0286/17 and KEGA No. 025UMB-4/2017; by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the scope of the strategic funding of UID/BIO/04469/2019 unit and BioTecNorte operation (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000004) funded by the European Regional Development Fund under the scope of Norte2020 – Programa Operacional Regional do Norte. We also acknowledge the anonymous reviewers for their detailed and helpful comments on the manuscript and Max Falkenberg for English revision.
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