High-throughput sequencing studies generate vast amounts of taxonomic data. Evolutionary
ecological hypotheses of the recovered taxa and Species Hypotheses are difficult to test due …

Establishing the dates for the origin and main diversification events in the phylogeny of
Ascomycota is among the most crucial remaining goals in understanding the evolution of …

The early diverging Ascomycota lineage, detected primarily from nSSU rDNA sequence-
based phylogenetic analyses, includes enigmatic key taxa important to an understanding of …

The 140 000 or so fungal species reported so far are heterogeneously defined based on
varying criteria such as morphological, physiological, mating, and (or) molecular features …

The global diversity of fungi has been estimated using several different approaches. There is
somewhere between 2–11 million estimated species, but the number of formally described …

Fungi associated with photosynthetic organisms are major determinants of terrestrial
biomass, nutrient cycling, and ecosystem productivity from the poles to the equator. Whereas …

In this paper, we provide a phylogenetic overview of Basidiomycota and related phyla in
relation to ten years of DNA based phylogenetic studies since the AFTOL publications in …

Pairs of taxa are commonly found in lichen-forming ascomycetes that differ primarily in their
reproductive modes: one taxon reproduces sexually, the other vegetatively. The evolutionary …

The mode of evolution of the biologically diverse forms of ascomycetes is not well
understood, largely because the descent relationships remain unresolved. By using …

Taxonomic placement of genera have been changing rapidly as taxonomists widely use
DNA sequence data in phylogenetic and evolutionary studies. It is essential to update …