A phylum-level phylogenetic classification of zygomycete fungi based on genome-scale data
- J. Spatafora, Ying Chang, J. Stajich
- BiologyMycologia
- 1 September 2016
It is demonstrated that zygomycetes comprise two major clades that form a paraphyletic grade, and the phyla Mucoromycota and ZoopagomyCota are circumscribed.
The Fungi
- J. Stajich, M. Berbee, John W. Taylor
- BiologyCurrent Biology
- 29 September 2009
Fungal Molecular Evolution: Gene Trees and Geologic Time
- M. Berbee, John W. Taylor
- Biology
- 2001
Phenetics, cladistics, and computerized data analysis and phylogenetic tree generation are now changing the intellectual rules for taxonomy and phylogenetics.
Culturing and direct DNA extraction find different fungi from the same ericoid mycorrhizal roots.
- T. R. Allen, T. Millar, S. Berch, M. Berbee
- BiologyNew Phytologist
- 1 October 2003
Patterns of fungal diversity at the scale of individual roots are illustrated and cloned and cultured fungi from each root are compared and compared to demonstrate a systematic culturing detection bias.
Dating divergences in the Fungal Tree of Life: review and new analyses.
- John W. Taylor, M. Berbee
- BiologyMycologia
- 1 November 2006
The history of dating fungal divergences by nucleic acid variation is reviewed and a dataset of 50 genes for 25 selected fungi, plants and animals is used to investigate divergence times in kingdom Fungi and the choice of fossil calibration points on dating divergence in fungi is tested.
Cochliobolus phylogenetics and the origin of known, highly virulent pathogens, inferred from ITS and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase gene sequences
- M. Berbee, M. Pirseyedi, S. Hubbard
- Biology
- 1 November 1999
We evaluate the phylogenetic distribution of known, highly virulent plant pathogens in the genus Cochliobolus (sexually reproducing species in the Ascomycota, Pleosporaceae) and assess the relation...
Dating the molecular clock in fungi – how close are we?
- M. Berbee, John W. Taylor
- Biology
- 1 February 2010
Evolution of the fungal self-fertile reproductive life style from self-sterile ancestors.
- S. Yun, M. Berbee, O. Yoder, B. Turgeon
- BiologyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
- 11 May 1999
Structural analyses of MAT sequences from homothallic and heterothallic Cochliobolus species support the hypothesis that heterothallism is ancestral, and expression of a fused MAT gene from a Homothallic species confers self-fertility on a MAT-null strain of a heteroth metallic species, suggesting that MAT alone is sufficient to change reproductive life style.
Dating the evolutionary radiations of the true fungi
- M. Berbee, John W. Taylor
- Biology
- 1 August 1993
A relative time scale for the origin and radiation of major lineages of the true fungi is constructed, using the 18S ribosomal RNA gene sequence data of 37 fungal species, and then calibrate the time scale using fossil evidence.
Pleospora species with Stemphylium anamorphs: a four locus phylogeny resolves new lineages yet does not distinguish among species in the Pleospora herbarum clade
- P. Inderbitzin, Y. R. Mehta, M. Berbee
- BiologyMycologia
- 1 May 2009
A rigorous phylogenetic analysis of the relationships among Stemphylium isolates with particular emphasis on species delimitation in the P. herbarum clade provided strong support for the main groupings obtained earlier and also revealed six possible new species.
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