Open Peer Review Discuss this article (0) Comments RESEARCH NOTE Xylariales: First results of mycological exploration in the Sangay and Llanganates National Park, Ecuador [version 1; referees: 2 approved with reservations] María-Fernanda Guevara , Paula Salazar , Bence Mátyás , María-Eugenia Ordoñez 5 Biotechnology of Natural Resources, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Quito, 170525, Ecuador Environmental Research Group, Secondary Metabolites and Animal Biotechnology NUNKUY-WAKAN, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Quito, 170525, Ecuador Carrera de Biotecnología de los Recursos Naturales, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Quito, 170525, Ecuador Grupo de Investigación Mentoria y Gestión del Cambio, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Cuenca, 010102, Ecuador School of Biological Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, Quito, 170143, Ecuador Abstract In the present study fungi collections were sampled in the Sangay (SP) and Llanganates (LP) National Parks, from which sequences of the regions of the internal transcribable spacer (ITS1-5.8S-ITS2) of the ribosomal DNA were obtained (RDNA). The taxonomic identification of fungi of the order Xylariales was achieved with the bioinformatic tools, to further study the phylogenetic relationships among the collected individuals and thus contribute with base information on their biological diversity, necessary to design and implement measures for the conservation of fungi. All records belong to the genus Xylaria, of these eight belong to PL and two to SP. A record was not identified at the species level, suggesting that it could be a new species. A phylogenetic tree of Maximum Likelihood was built. Keywords Diversity, ITS, Llanganates, National Park, Sangay, Xylarial 1,2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 Referee Status: Invited Referees version 2 published 17 May 2018 version 1 published 23 Feb 2018 1 2 report report report report , Universidad de Francisco J. Flores las Fuerzas Armadas–ESPE, Ecuador 1 , USDA Forest Service, D. Jean Lodge USA University of Georgia, USA 2 23 Feb 2018, :222 (doi: ) First published: 7 10.12688/f1000research.13623.1 17 May 2018, :222 (doi: ) Latest published: 7 10.12688/f1000research.13623.2 v1 Page 1 of 8 F1000Research 2018, 7:222 Last updated: 16 JUL 2018