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Record Nr.

UNINA9910298354303321

Titolo

Systematics and Evolution : Part A / / edited by David J. McLaughlin, Joseph W. Spatafora

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-642-55318-4

Edizione

[2nd ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (478 p.)

Collana

The Mycota, A Comprehensive Treatise on Fungi as Experimental Systems for Basic and Applied Research, , 2945-8056 ; ; 7A

Disciplina

579.5012

Soggetti

Microbiology

Plants - Evolution

Fungi

Mycology

Plant Evolution

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.