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Title
Systematics and evolution. Part A.
Edition
Second edition / edited by David J. McLaughlin, Joseph W. Spatafora.
ISBN
9783642553189 (electronic book)
3642553184 (electronic book)
9783642553172
3642553176
Published
Berlin : Springer, 2014.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-642-55318-9 doi
Call Number
QK603.2
Dewey Decimal Classification
579.5012
Summary
This volume includes treatments of systematics and related topics for both fungi and fungus-like organisms in four eukaryotic supergroups, as well as specialized chapters on nomenclature, techniques and evolution. These organisms are of great interest to mycologists, plant pathologists and others, including those interested in the animal parasitic Microsporidia. Our knowledge of the systematics and evolution of fungi has made great strides since the first edition of this volume, largely driven by molecular phylogenetic analyses. Consensus among mycologists has led to a stable systematic treatment that has since become widely adopted and is incorporated into this second edition, along with a great deal of new information on evolution and ecology. The systematic chapters cover occurrence, distribution, economic importance, morphology and ultrastructure, development of taxonomic theory, classification and maintenance and culture. Other chapters deal with nomenclatural changes necessitated by revisions of the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants, including the elimination of separate names for asexual states, as well as methods for preservation of cultures and specimens, character evolution and methods for ultrastructural study, the fungal fossil record and the impact of whole genomes on fungal studies.
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Series
Mycota ; 7A.
Fungi from PCR to genomics: The spreading revolution in evolutionary biology
Excavata: Acrasiomycota; Amoebozoa: Dictyosteliomycota, Myxomycota
Systematics of the Straminipila: Labyrinthulomycota, Hyphochytriomycota and Oomycota
Rhizaria: Phytomyxea
Microsporidia
Chytridiomycota, Monoblepharidomycota and Neocallimastigomycota
Blastocladiomycota
Zygomycetous Fungi: Phylum Entomophthoromycota and subphyla Kickxellomycotina
Glomeromycota
Pucciniomycotina
Ustilaginomycotina
Tremellomycetes and related groups
Dacrymycetes
Agaricomycetes.
