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Fungal Molecular Evolution: Gene Trees and Geologic Time

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Systematics and Evolution

Part of the book series: The Mycota ((MYCOTA,volume 7B))

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Fungal phylogenetics has always been based on characters, but technological and intellectual advances are introducing new kinds of characters and new ways of thinking about them. First light microscopy, then electron microscopy, and now DNA sequencing successively upset previous views of fungal relationships. Phenetics, cladistics, and computerized data analysis and phylogenetic tree generation are now changing the intellectual rules for taxonomy and phylogenetics. The combination of new characters and new analytical tools have supported some taxonomic groups, established some new ones, and demolished a few old ones.

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Berbee, M.L., Taylor, J.W. (2001). Fungal Molecular Evolution: Gene Trees and Geologic Time. In: McLaughlin, D.J., McLaughlin, E.G., Lemke, P.A. (eds) Systematics and Evolution. The Mycota, vol 7B. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10189-6_10

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