The recognition of taxonomic ranks in the Linnean classification system is largely arbitrary.
Some authors have proposed the use of divergence time as a universally standardized …

The history of assigning ranks to fungi, as well as the relative importance of using
divergence time estimates is reviewed. The paper pays tribute to the major mycological …

Phylogenetic relationships of mushrooms and their relatives within the order Agaricales
were addressed by using nuclear large subunit ribosomal DNA sequences. Approximately …

Agarics (gilled mushrooms) and the order Agaricales include some of the best‐known and
most charismatic fungi. However, neither group has had its constituent genera exhaustively …

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 …

The discussion of fungal species delineation has yet to reach a consensus, despite the
advancements in technology, which helped modernise traditional approaches. In particular …

Cortinarius is a species-rich and morphologically challenging genus with a cosmopolitan
distribution. Many names have not been used consistently and in some instances the same …

Approximately 3000 bp across 84 taxa have been analyzed for variable regions of RPB1,
RPB2, and nLSU-rDNA to infer phylogenetic relationships in the large ectomycorrhizal …

Family Cortinariaceae currently includes only one genus, Cortinarius, which is the largest
Agaricales genus, with thousands of species worldwide. The species are important …

The current classification system for the recognition of taxonomic ranks among fungi,
especially at high-ranking level, is subjective. With the development of molecular …