Historical biogeography and diversification of truffles in the Tuberaceae and their newly identified southern hemisphere sister lineage.

Truffles have evolved from epigeous (aboveground) ancestors in nearly every major lineage of fleshy fungi. Because accelerated rates of morphological evolution accompany the transition to the truffle form, closely related epigeous ancestors remain unknown for most truffle lineages. This is the case...

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Main Authors: Gregory Bonito, Matthew E Smith, Michael Nowak, Rosanne A Healy, Gonzalo Guevara, Efren Cázares, Akihiko Kinoshita, Eduardo R Nouhra, Laura S Domínguez, Leho Tedersoo, Claude Murat, Yun Wang, Baldomero Arroyo Moreno, Donald H Pfister, Kazuhide Nara, Alessandra Zambonelli, James M Trappe, Rytas Vilgalys
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23300990/pdf/?tool=EBI