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A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the FungiDavid S Hibbett
Biology Department, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610, USA
Mycol Res 111:509-47. 2007..Several genera of 'basal' Fungi of uncertain position are not placed in any higher taxa, including Basidiobolus, Caulochytrium, Olpidium, and Rozella...
A phylogenetic overview of the AgaricomycotinaDavid S Hibbett
Biology Department, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts 01610, USA
Mycologia 98:917-25. 2006..Genome sequences from other major lineages, especially the early diverging clades, are needed to resolve the most ancient nodes and to assess deep homology in ecological characters in the Agaricomycotina...
The relative ages of ectomycorrhizal mushrooms and their plant hosts estimated using Bayesian relaxed molecular clock analysesDavid S Hibbett
Biology Department, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts 01610, USA
BMC Biol 7:13. 2009..As we were primarily interested in the relative ages of the plants and fungi, we did not attempt to calibrate the molecular clock using the very limited fossil record of Agaricomycetes...
Major clades of Agaricales: a multilocus phylogenetic overviewP Brandon Matheny
Biology Department, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts 01610, USA
Mycologia 98:982-95. 2006..A family-based phylogenetic classification is sketched for the Agaricales, in which 30 families, four unplaced tribes and two informally named clades are recognized...
Toward a phylogenetic classification of the leotiomycetes based on rDNA dataZheng Wang
Department of Biology, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts 01610, USA
Mycologia 98:1065-75. 2006..Sequence data of rDNA regions are not adequate to resolve the relationships among major groups of the Leotiomycetes...
Characterization of three mnp genes of Fomitiporia mediterranea and report of additional class II peroxidases in the order hymenochaetalesIngo Morgenstern
Clark University, Department of Biology, Worcester, Massachusetts 01610, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 76:6431-40. 2010....
Horizontal transfer of a nitrate assimilation gene cluster and ecological transitions in fungi: a phylogenetic studyJason C Slot
Department of Biology, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America
PLoS ONE 2:e1097. 2007..reesei in a new niche. Horizontal transmission of this cluster of functionally integrated genes supports the "selfish operon" hypothesis for maintenance of gene clusters...
Contributions of rpb2 and tef1 to the phylogeny of mushrooms and allies (Basidiomycota, Fungi)P Brandon Matheny
Biology Department, Clark University, 950 Main St, Worcester, MA 01610, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 43:430-51. 2007..Strong support is also recovered for the basal position of the Dacrymycetales in the Hymenomycetidae and paraphyly of the Exobasidiomycetidae...
Molecular systematics and biological diversification of BoletalesManfred Binder
Clark University, Biology Department, Lasry Center for Bioscience, Worcester, Massachusetts 01610 1477, USA
Mycologia 98:971-81. 2006..We performed ancestral state reconstruction with BayesMultiState, which suggested that the ancestor of the Boletales was a resupinate or polyporoid saprotrophic fungus, producing a brown-rot...
Diversification of NRT2 and the origin of its fungal homologJason C Slot
Department of Biology, Clark University, MA, USA
Mol Biol Evol 24:1731-43. 2007..Our analyses also suggest that there has been a horizontal transfer of nrt2 from a basidiomycete fungus to an ascomycete fungus and reveal a duplication of nrt2 in the ectomycorrhizal mushroom genus, Hebeloma...
Convergent evolution of sequestrate forms in Amanita under Mediterranean climate conditionsAlfredo Justo
Biology Department, Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester, Massachusetts 01610, USA
Mycologia 102:675-88. 2010..A new species of Torrendia from Australia was discovered during the revision of the collections originally identified as T. arenaria and is described here as Amanita pseudoinculta...
Evolution of helotialean fungi (Leotiomycetes, Pezizomycotina): a nuclear rDNA phylogenyZheng Wang
Department of Biology, Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01610, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 41:295-312. 2006....
Evolution of complex fruiting-body morphologies in homobasidiomycetesDavid S Hibbett
Biology Department, Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01610, USA
Proc Biol Sci 269:1963-9. 2002..A null model of morphological evolution, in which there is no asymmetry in transformation rates, was rejected. These results suggest that there is a 'driven' trend towards the evolution of complex forms in homobasidiomycetes...
Molecular phylogenetics of the Gloeophyllales and relative ages of clades of Agaricomycotina producing a brown rotRicardo Garcia-Sandoval
Biology Department, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts 01610, USA
Mycologia 103:510-24. 2011..White rot and resupinate fruiting bodies appear to be plesiomorphic in Gloeophyllales. Relaxed molecular clock analyses suggest that the Gloeophyllales arose in the Cretaceous, after the origin of Pinaceae...
Amylocorticiales ord. nov. and Jaapiales ord. nov.: early diverging clades of agaricomycetidae dominated by corticioid formsManfred Binder
Clark University, Biology Department, Lasry Center for Biosciences, 15 Maywood Street, Worcester, Massachusetts 01601, USA
Mycologia 102:865-80. 2010..The Jaapiales is supported as the sister group of the remainder of the Agaricomycetidae, suggesting that the greatest radiation of pileate-stipitate mushrooms resulted from the elaboration of resupinate ancestors...
After the gold rush, or before the flood? Evolutionary morphology of mushroom-forming fungi (Agaricomycetes) in the early 21st centuryDavid S Hibbett
Biology Department, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610, USA
Mycol Res 111:1001-18. 2007..Modern approaches, including comparative phylogenetic analyses and developmental studies, have the potential to yield novel insights into both the macroevolutionary processes and cellular mechanisms of fungal morphological evolution...
Effects of gasteroid fruiting body morphology on diversification rates in three independent clades of fungi estimated using binary state speciation and extinction analysisAndrew W Wilson
Department of Biology, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts 01610, USA
Evolution 65:1305-22. 2011..The low frequency of gasteroid forms in the Agaricomycetes as a whole may reflect the recent origins of many gasteroid lineages...
Higher-level phylogenetic relationships of Homobasidiomycetes (mushroom-forming fungi) inferred from four rDNA regionsManfred Binder
Department of Biology, Clark University, 950 Main St, Worcester, Massachusetts 01568, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 22:76-90. 2002..Nevertheless, the backbone of the homobasidiomycete phylogeny, and the internal structure of several clades, remain poorly resolved...
Phylogeny of the Pluteaceae (Agaricales, Basidiomycota): taxonomy and character evolutionAlfredo Justo
Biology Department, Clark University, 950 Main St, Worcester, MA 01610, USA
Fungal Biol 115:1-20. 2011..Pluteus, with the metuloid bearing species; (ii) subdivision of sect. Celluloderma according to the presence/absence of cystidioid elements in the pileipellis is not supported by molecular data...
Molecular evolution and diversity of lignin degrading heme peroxidases in the AgaricomycetesIngo Morgenstern
Department of Biology, Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01610, USA
J Mol Evol 66:243-57. 2008..Our study includes the first reports of partial sequences for MnPs in the Hymenochaetales and Corticiales...
Conservation of biotrophy in Hygrophoraceae inferred from combined stable isotope and phylogenetic analysesBrian H Seitzman
Department of Biology, 950 Main Street, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts 01610, USA
Mycologia 103:280-90. 2011..We conclude that Hygrophoraceae of previously unknown nutritional status are unlikely to be saprotrophs and are probably in symbiosis with bryophytes or other understory plants...
Automated phylogenetic taxonomy: an example in the homobasidiomycetes (mushroom-forming fungi)David S Hibbett
Biology Department, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts 01610, USA
Syst Biol 54:660-8. 2005
Phylogenetic relationships of Auriculoscypha based on ultrastructural and molecular studiesT K Arun Kumar
Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, 1445 Gortner Avenue, St Paul, MN 55108 1095, USA
Mycol Res 111:268-74. 2007..The placement of Auriculoscypha in the Platygloeales can no longer be justified and both ultrastructural and molecular evidence strongly support the placement of Auriculoscypha in the Septobasidiales...
Phylogeny and a new species of Sparassis (Polyporales, Basidiomycota): evidence from mitochondrial atp6, nuclear rDNA and rpb2 genesYu cheng Dai
Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
Mycologia 98:584-92. 2006..brevipes-S. spathulata clade in the ATP6 tree. The differences between the phylogenetic inferences from the atp6 gene and those from nuclear genes within Sparassis species are discussed...
Reconstructing the early evolution of Fungi using a six-gene phylogenyTimothy Y James
Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708 0338, USA
Nature 443:818-22. 2006..The enigmatic microsporidia seem to be derived from an endoparasitic chytrid ancestor similar to Rozella allomycis, on the earliest diverging branch of the fungal phylogenetic tree...
New Asian species of the genus Anamika (euagarics, hebelomatoid clade) based on morphology and ribosomal DNA sequencesZhu L Yang
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Heilongtan, China
Mycol Res 109:1259-67. 2005..lactariolens comb. nov., a Japanese species originally described in the genus Alnicola. A complete description of A. angustilamellata, including illustrations, is provided...
When good relationships go badDavid S Hibbett
Nature 419:345-6. 2002
A new Sparassis species from Spain described using morphological and molecular dataJaime B Blanco-Dios
Centro de Capacitación e Experimentación Agraria de Lourizán, Lourizán, Pontevedra, Spain
Mycol Res 110:1227-31. 2006..miniensis and S. brevipes, another European species producing large fruiting bodies but with entire flabellae and no clamp connections...
Research Coordination Networks: a phylogeny for kingdom Fungi (Deep Hypha)Meredith Blackwell
Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 70803, USA
Mycologia 98:829-37. 2006....
