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 …

Biodiversity loss from disturbances caused by human activities means that species are
disappearing at an ever increasing rate. The high number of species that have yet to be …

Abstract Here, we describe Assemble Species by Automatic Partitioning (ASAP), a new
method to build species partitions from single locus sequence alignments (ie, barcode data …

Motivation In recent years, molecular species delimitation has become a routine approach
for quantifying and classifying biodiversity. Barcoding methods are of particular importance …

Species are fundamental units in biological research and can be defined on the basis of
various operational criteria. There has been growing use of molecular approaches for …

Neoplasms change over time through a process of cell-level evolution, driven by genetic
and epigenetic alterations. However, the ecology of the microenvironment of a neoplastic …

Colletotrichum is one of the most important plant pathogenic genera that is responsible for
numerous diseases which can have a profound impact on the agricultural sector. Species …

Motivation: Sequence-based methods to delimit species are central to DNA taxonomy,
microbial community surveys and DNA metabarcoding studies. Current approaches either …

Phylogenetic analysis of 11 genetic loci and results from many genoty** studies revealed
significant genetic diversity with the pathogenic Cryptococcus gattii/Cryptococcus …

Lichens are symbiotic associations resulting from interactions among fungi (primary and
secondary mycobionts), algae and/or cyanobacteria (primary and secondary photobionts) …