Systematics and Evolution Part A /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: McLaughlin, David J. (Editor), Spatafora, Joseph W. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2014.
• Series: The Mycota, A Comprehensive Treatise on Fungi as Experimental Systems for Basic and Applied Research ; 7A
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Microbiology.; Mycology.; Life Sciences.; Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.

This volume includes treatments of systematics and related topics for both fungi and fungus-like organisms in four eukaryotic supergroups, as well as specialized chapters on nomenclature, techniques and evolution. These organisms are of great interest to mycologists, plant pathologists and others, i...

Table of Contents:

• Fungi from PCR to genomics: The spreading revolution in evolutionary biology
• Excavata: Acrasiomycota; Amoebozoa: Dictyosteliomycota, Myxomycota
• Systematics of the Straminipila: Labyrinthulomycota, Hyphochytriomycota and Oomycota
• Rhizaria: Phytomyxea
• Microsporidia
• Chytridiomycota, Monoblepharidomycota and Neocallimastigomycota
• Blastocladiomycota
• Zygomycetous Fungi: Phylum Entomophthoromycota and subphyla Kickxellomycotina
• Glomeromycota
• Pucciniomycotina
• Ustilaginomycotina
• Tremellomycetes and related groups
• Dacrymycetes
• Agaricomycetes.