Why morphology matters: the negative consequences of hasty descriptions of putative novelties in asexual ascomycetes

ABSTRACT Recent progress in the discovery of fungal diversity has been enabled by intensive mycological surveys in centres of global biodiversity. Descriptions of new fungal species have been almost routinely based on phenotypic studies coupled with single or multigene phylogenetic analyses of DNA s...

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Main Authors: Ondřej Koukol, Gregorio Delgado
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-09-01
Series:IMA Fungus
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s43008-021-00073-z