Pushing the frontiers of biodiversity research: Unveiling the global diversity, distribution, and conservation of fungi

T Niskanen, R Lücking, A Dahlberg… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Fungi comprise approximately 20% of all eukaryotic species and are connected to virtually
all life forms on Earth. Yet, their diversity remains contentious, their distribution elusive, and …

Fungal diversity revisited: 2.2 to 3.8 million species

DL Hawksworth, R Lücking - Microbiology spectrum, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
The question of how many species of Fungi there are has occasioned much speculation,
with figures mostly posited from around half a million to 10 million, and in one extreme case …

Unambiguous identification of fungi: where do we stand and how accurate and precise is fungal DNA barcoding?

R Lücking, MC Aime, B Robbertse, AN Miller… - IMA fungus, 2020 - Springer
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 …

Notes, outline and divergence times of Basidiomycota

MQ He, RL Zhao, KD Hyde, D Begerow, M Kemler… - Fungal diversity, 2019 - Springer
The Basidiomycota constitutes a major phylum of the kingdom Fungi and is second in
species numbers to the Ascomycota. The present work provides an overview of all validly …

The 2016 classification of lichenized fungi in the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota–Approaching one thousand genera

R Lücking, BP Hodkinson, SD Leavitt - The Bryologist, 2017 - BioOne
Ninety years after Zahlbruckner, we present the most recent update to the classification of
lichen fungi in the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota to genus level, with species numbers and …

Species in lichen-forming fungi: balancing between conceptual and practical considerations, and between phenotype and phylogenomics

R Lücking, SD Leavitt, DL Hawksworth - Fungal Diversity, 2021 - Springer
Lichens are symbiotic associations resulting from interactions among fungi (primary and
secondary mycobionts), algae and/or cyanobacteria (primary and secondary photobionts) …

Towards large-scale integrative taxonomy (LIT): resolving the data conundrum for dark taxa

E Hartop, A Srivathsan, F Ronquist… - Systematic Biology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract New, rapid, accurate, scalable, and cost-effective species discovery and
delimitation methods are needed for tackling “dark taxa,” here defined as groups for which …

How to publish a new fungal species, or name, version 3.0

MC Aime, AN Miller, T Aoki, K Bensch, L Cai, PW Crous… - IMA fungus, 2021 - Springer
It is now a decade since The International Commission on the Taxonomy of Fungi (ICTF)
produced an overview of requirements and best practices for describing a new fungal …

[HTML][HTML]  Turbo taxonomy approaches: lessons from the past and recommendations for the future based on the experience with Braconidae (Hymenoptera) parasitoid …

JL Fernandez-Triana - ZooKeys, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A recent paper (Sharkey et al. 2021a) describing 416 new species of Braconidae parasitoid
wasps (Hymenoptera) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in Costa Rica has reignited …

Delimiting species in Basidiomycota: a review

B Cao, D Haelewaters, N Schoutteten, D Begerow… - Fungal Diversity, 2021 - Springer
Species delimitation is one of the most fundamental processes in biology. Biodiversity
undertakings, for instance, require explicit species concepts and criteria for species …