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Record W4414712546 · doi:10.3114/sim.2025.112.04

From chaos to tranquillity: a modern approach to the identification, nomenclature and phylogeny of <i>Aspergillus Penicillium</i> and other <i>Eurotiales</i> updated accepted species list

2025· article· en· W4414712546 on OpenAlex
Cobus M. Visagie, Jos Houbraken, David P. Overy, F. Sklenář, Konstanze Bensch, Jens C. Frisvad, J. Mack, Giancarlo Perrone, Robert A. Samson, N.I. van Vuuren, Neriman Yılmaz, Vít Hubka

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Bibliographic record

VenueStudies in Mycology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicPlant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
Canadian institutionsCarleton UniversityAgriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPhylogenetic treePhylogeneticsTaxonomy (biology)NomenclatureIdentification (biology)Taxonomic rankDNA sequencingSpecies identificationSpecies name

Abstract

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Eurotiales is a diverse and speciose order and includes economically important genera like Aspergillus , Penicillium , Paecilomyces and Talaromyces . However, despite current advancements, a proportion of newly described species within these taxonomically challenging genera represent, in fact, existing species, which raises obvious concerns. This study thus aimed to further modernise the taxonomy of Eurotiales by addressing key challenges in species but continue to support the inclusion of morphological descriptions and, where possible, associated secondary metabolite, exoenzyme, physiology and ecological data when introducing new species. Based on our phylogenetic analyses, we accept 130 of 171 species described since 2023 but reduce 41 to 26 genera, with Aspergillus (n = 465), Penicillium (n = 598) and Talaromyces and species descriptions under a phylogenetic species concept, we release a curated DNA reference sequence database containing 18837 DNA sequences (3867 ITS, 5277 BenA , 5110 CaM and 4583 RPB2 ) generated from 5325 strains. Sequences were selected to best cover the infraspecies variation under our current understanding of each species. The species list and sequence database will be kept up to date as new information becomes available and will remain available at https://doi. org/10.5281/zenodo.16605949. This manuscript presents a major leap towards our goal to facilitate work with Eurotiales , while providing the taxonomic framework to support research excellence related to this important fungal group.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.912
Threshold uncertainty score0.462

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.285
Teacher spread0.262 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it