A new rock-inhabiting fungal taxon was isolated from St. Margarethen Church in Vienna, Austria. Based on small subunit and internal transcribed regions of rDNA sequencing, the new taxon was described as Capnobotryella isiloglui Sert & Sterflinger. | H. BAKIR SERT, M. WUCZKOWSKI, K. STERFLINGER Research Article Turk J Bot 36 (2012): 401-407 © TÜBİTAK doi: Capnobotryella isiloglui, a new rock-inhabiting fungus from Austria Hacer BAKIR SERT1,*, Michael WUCZKOWSKI2, Katja STERFLINGER2 1 Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences and Arts, Akdeniz University, TR-07058 Antalya - TURKEY 2 Austrian Centre of Biological Resources and Applied Mycology (ACBR), University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, A 1190, Vienna - AUSTRIA Received: Accepted: Abstract: A new rock-inhabiting fungal taxon was isolated from St. Margarethen Church in Vienna, Austria. Based on small subunit and internal transcribed regions of rDNA sequencing, the new taxon was described as Capnobotryella isiloglui Sert & Sterflinger. The type culture of the taxa is in the ACBR culture collection (Vienna, Austria, MA 3619, EMBL Accession Number: ). Key words: New taxon, black fungi, Capnobotryella, rock fungi Avusturya’dan yeni bir taş mantarı, Capnobotryella isiloglui Özet: Viyana (Avusturya)’da bulunan St. Margarethen kilisesinden taşta yaşayan yeni bir fungal takson izole edildi. rDNA’nın küçük alt birimi ve ITS bölgelerinin dizi analizi yapılarak yeni takson Capnobotryella isiloglui Sert & Sterflinger olarak tanımlandı. C. isiloglui’nin tip örneği ACBR Kültür Koleksiyonu’nda (Viyana/Avusturya, MA 3619, EMBL No: ) saklanmaktadır. Anahtar sözcükler: Yeni takson, siyah mantar, Capnobotryella, taş mantarı Introduction Biodeterioration may be defined as any undesirable change in the properties of a material caused by the vital activities of living organisms. This definition distinguishes biodeterioration from fields of study such as corrosion and the wearing of materials that relate to undesirable changes in the properties of a material brought about by chemical, mechanical, and physical influences (Leznicka et al., 1988; Urzi & Krumbein, 1994; Kumar & Kumar,
