Assembling the fungal tree of life: Progress, classification, and evolution of subcellular traits

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1446-1480

  Lutzoni, François ^a   Kauff, Frank ^a   Cox, Cymon J ^a   McLaughlin, David ^b   Celio, Gail ^b   Dentinger, Celiobryn ^b   Padamsee, Mahajabeen ^b   Hibbett, David ^c   James, Timothy Y ^a   Baloch, Elisabeth ^d   Grube, Martin ^d   Reeb, Valérie ^a   Hofstetter, Valérie ^a   Schoch, Conrad ^e   Arnold, A Elizabeth ^a   Miadlikowska, Jolanta ^a,f   Spatafora, Joseph ^e   Johnson, Desiree ^e   Hambleton, Sarah ^g   Crockett, Michael ^e   Shoemaker, Robert ^g   Sung, Gi Ho ^e   Lücking, Robert ^h   Lumbsch, Thorsten ^h   O'Donnell, Kerry ⁱ   Binder, Manfred ^c   Diederich, Paul ^j   Ertz, Damien ^k   Gueidan, Cécile ^a   Hansen, Karen ^l   Harris, Richard C ^m   Hosaka, Kentaro ^e   Lim, Young Woon ^c,n   Matheny, Brandon ^c   Nishida, Hiromi ^o   Pfister, Don ^l   Rogers, Jack ^p   Rossman, Amy ^q   Schmitt, Imke ^h   Sipman, Harrie ^r   Stone, Jeffrey ^e   Sugiyama, Junta ^s   Yahr, Rebecca ^a   Vilgalys, Rytas ^a   more..

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^e OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^g AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^h FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

ⁱ NATIONAL CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL UTILIZATION RESEARCH   (United States)

^j National Museum of Natural History   (Luxembourg)

^k BOTANIC GARDEN MEISE   (Belgium)

^l HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMATIC BOTANY   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^o INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^p WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^r FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^s UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

more..

Author keywords

Fungal classification; Fungal morphology and ultrastructure; Fungal phylogenetics; Fungal systematics; Mitochondrial small subunit ribosomal DNA (mitSSU rDNA); Nuclear small and large subunit ribosomal DNA (nucSSU and nucLSU rDNA)

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FUNGUS; PHYLOGENY;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI; GLOMEROMYCOTA; THUJA; ZYGOMYCETES; ZYGOMYCOTA;

EID: 32044471897     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: 00029122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.91.10.1446     Document Type: Review

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