This is the opening paper in the special issue of Fungal Diversity, which collates the data on
defining species. Defining and recognizing species has long been a controversial issue …

In phylogeography, an empirical focus on gene lineages enables the history of population
processes to be inferred from the simultaneous analysis of temporal and spatial patterns …

A fully updated guide to the increasingly prevalent use of molecular data in ecological
studies Molecular ecology is concerned with how molecular biology and population genetics …

Magnaporthe oryzae is described as a new species distinct from M. grisea. Gene trees were
inferred for Magnaporthe species using portions of three genes: actin, beta-tubulin, and …

Repeat families within genomes are often maintained with similar sequences. Traditionally,
this has been explained by concerted evolution, where repeats in an array evolve “in …

Rice, as a widely and intensively cultivated crop, should be a target for parasite host shifts
and a source for shifts to co-occurring weeds. Magnaporthe oryzae, of the M. grisea species …

A combination of population genetics and phylogenetic inference methods was used to
delineate Bradyrhizobium species and to uncover the evolutionary forces acting at the …

A total of 1673 Mycosphaerella graminicola strains were assayed for DNA fingerprints and
restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) markers in the nuclear and mitochondrial …

The causal agents of Alternaria brown spot of tangerines and tangerine hybrids, Alternaria
leaf spot of rough lemon and Alternaria black rot of citrus historically have been referred to …

The claim that eukaryotic micro-organisms have global geographic ranges, constituting a
significant departure from the situation with macro-organisms, has been supported by …