“…To the best of our knowledge, there are no reports describing the genetic and functional diversities of Petriella setifera through AFLP fingerprinting and BIOLOG FF Plates™. For the last 15 years many researchers used the AFLP analysis to identify the intraspecific variability within a fungal species (Bakkeren, Kronstad & Lévesque, 2000;Tooley et al, 2000;Abdel-Satar et al, 2003;Radišek et al, 2003;Schmidt, Niessen & Vogel, 2004;Perrone et al, 2006a,b, Pawlik et al, 2015aRola et al, 2015), and 7 years ago they began to use the methodology BIOLOG to estimate the functional diversity (Feng et al, 2009;Singh, 2009;Albrecht et al, 2010;Shengnan et al, 2011;Lucas et al, 2013;Janusz et al, 2015;Pawlik et al, 2015a,b;Rola et al, 2015;Panek, Frąc & Bilińska-Wielgus, 2016). All these investigations explain the validity and suitability of using these methodologies to discover the intraspecific differences between fungal species at the genetic and functional level.…”