Fig. 2

Phylogenetic tree indicating the placement of Escovopsis (brown branches), Sympodiorosea (pink branches) and Luteomyces (yellow branches) within the Hypocreales. The tree shown was inferred using Bayesian Inference (BI). Highlighted clades in different colours represent six different families (Bionectriaceae, Clavicipitaceae, Cordycipitaceae, Hypocreaceae, Nectriaceae, and Ophiocordycipitaceae) in the Hypocreales. The analysis was based on concatenated sequences of LSU, tef1, rpb1 and rpb2 (See Additional file 1: Table S5 for all strains and their associated metadata used to infer this phylogenetic tree). Numbers on branches indicate BI posterior probabilities (PP) and Maximum Likelihood bootstrap support values (MLB), respectively. Hyphens (--) indicate MLB < 70%. We used eight species from the family Stachybotryaceae (dark green box) to root the tree. ET indicates ex-type cultures