Regions of rDNA are commonly used to infer phylogenetic relationships among fungal
species and as DNA barcodes for identification. These regions occur in large tandem arrays …

True fungi (Fungi) and fungus-like organisms (eg Mycetozoa, Oomycota) constitute the
second largest group of organisms based on global richness estimates, with around 3 …

Molecular methods are increasingly used to identify species that lack conspicuous macro‐or
micromorphological characters. Taxonomic and ecological research teams barcode large …

The rDNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region has been accepted as a DNA barcoding
marker for fungi and is widely used in phylogenetic studies; however, intragenomic ITS …

The secondary structure of the ITS2 rDNA transcript (pre-rRNA) could provide information for
identifying homologous nucleotide characters useful for cladistic inference of relationships …

Russula is a worldwid genus which has a high species diversity. Aiming accurate and rapid
species identification, candidate genes nLSU (28S), ITS, tef-1α, mtSSU, rpb1, and rpb2 …

Morphological characters have long served as the basis for mycological taxonomy. But with
the advent of DNA sequence data, is morphology still useful? Will barcoding replace visual …

An automated procedure was developed to extract orthologous sequences from fungal
genomes and incorporate them into phylogenomic analyses in a timely and efficient manner …

Although significant progress has been made resolving deep branches of the fungal tree of
life, many fungal systematists are interested in species-level questions to both define …

Lycogala epidendrum is one of the most widely known myxomycete species and the first-
ever discovered representative of this group. Using 687 original DNA sequences from 330 …