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Correction: MycoNews 2023: Editorial, news, reports, awards, personalia, and book news

David L. Hawksworth in IMA Fungus (2024)

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MycoNews 2023: Editorial, news, reports, awards, personalia, and book news

This fifth annual edition of MycoNews starts with an editorial on the critical importance of International Mycological Congresses (IMCs) to the health of mycology. Items on Counting down to IMC12, the State of th...

David L. Hawksworth in IMA Fungus (2024)

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A fungal plant pathogen discovered in the Devonian Rhynie Chert

Fungi are integral to well-functioning ecosystems, and their broader impact on Earth systems is widely acknowledged. Fossil evidence from the Rhynie Chert (Scotland, UK) shows that Fungi were already diverse in t...

Christine Strullu-Derrien, Tomasz Goral, Alan R. T. Spencer… in Nature Communications (2023)

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MycoNews 2022: editorial, news, reports, awards, personalia, and book news

This fourth annual edition of MycoNews starts with an editorial asking if mycology is approaching a tip** point, and note of the journal’s 2021 Impact Factor almost doubling from 2020. Updated information and n...

David L. Hawksworth in IMA Fungus (2023)

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MycoNews 2021: President’s message, IMA statutes, news, reports, awards, personalia, and book news

This third annual edition of MycoNews starts with a message from IMA President Wieland Meyer regarding the adoption of new statutes for the IMA, the postponement of IMC12 to 2024, and announcing Marc Stadler as P...

David L. Hawksworth in IMA Fungus (2021)

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Editor’s Note to: Molecular taxonomic tools provide more accurate estimates of species richness at less cost than traditional morphology-based taxonomic practices in a vegetation survey

David L. Hawksworth in Biodiversity and Conservation (2021)

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Author Correction: Fungal taxonomy and sequence-based nomenclature

Robert Lücking, M. Catherine Aime, Barbara Robbertse… in Nature Microbiology (2021)

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Species in lichen-forming fungi: balancing between conceptual and practical considerations, and between phenotype and phylogenomics

Lichens are symbiotic associations resulting from interactions among fungi (primary and secondary mycobionts), algae and/or cyanobacteria (primary and secondary photobionts), and specific elements of the bacte...

Robert Lücking, Steven D. Leavitt, David L. Hawksworth in Fungal Diversity (2021)

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How to publish a new fungal species, or name, version 3.0

It is now a decade since The International Commission on the Taxonomy of Fungi (ICTF) produced an overview of requirements and best practices for describing a new fungal species. In the meantime the International...

M. Catherine Aime, Andrew N. Miller, Takayuki Aoki, Konstanze Bensch, Lei Cai… in IMA Fungus (2021)

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MycoNews 2020: President’s message, news, reports, awards, personalia, book news, and correspondence

This second annual edition of MycoNews starts with a message from IMA President Wieland Meyer regarding the steps being taken to legally incorporate the Association in Switzerland. News is provided on progress in...

David L. Hawksworth in IMA Fungus (2020)

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Setting scientific names at all taxonomic ranks in italics facilitates their quick recognition in scientific papers

It is common practice in scientific journals to print genus and species names in italics. This is not only historical as species names were traditionally derived from Greek or Latin. Importantly, it also facil...

Marco Thines, Takayuki Aoki, Pedro W. Crous, Kevin D. Hyde, Robert Lücking… in IMA Fungus (2020)

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Books on biodiversity and conservation

Reviews and notices are provided on 23 books, published over the years 2017–2020. These are concerned with diverse aspects of biodiversity and conservation, including historical works on different types of ins...

David L. Hawksworth in Biodiversity and Conservation (2020)

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RIP mutated ITS genes in populations of Ophiocordyceps sinensis and their implications for molecular systematics

Different hypotheses have been proposed to interpret the observed unusual ITS (internal transcribed spacer) sequences in Ophiocordyceps sinensis. The coexistence of diverged ITS paralogs in a single genome was pr...

Yi Li, Lan Jiang, Ke Wang, Hai-Jun Wu, Rui-Heng Yang, Yu-**g Yan… in IMA Fungus (2020)

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Unambiguous identification of fungi: where do we stand and how accurate and precise is fungal DNA barcoding?

True fungi (Fungi) and fungus-like organisms (e.g. Mycetozoa, Oomycota) constitute the second largest group of organisms based on global richness estimates, with around 3 million predicted species. Compared to pl...

Robert Lücking, M. Catherine Aime, Barbara Robbertse, Andrew N. Miller… in IMA Fungus (2020)

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A new genus and species of foliicolous lichen in a new family of Strigulales (Ascomycota: Dothideomycetes) reveals remarkable class-level homoplasy

Phylogenetic analysis of some foliicolous lichens collected in Hainan Province, China, revealed a new lineage morphologically similar to Porina but phylogenetically related to Strigulaceae (Dothideomycetes), diff...

Shu Hua Jiang, David L. Hawksworth, Robert Lücking, Jiang Chun Wei in IMA Fungus (2020)

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MycoNews 2019: editorials, news, reports, awards, personalia, book news, and correspondence

This first instalment of MycoNews includes: an Editorial “Do we need more governance in taxonomy?”; reports of mycological meetings in Poland (18th Congress of European Mycologists), Iran (4th Iranian Mycologi...

David L. Hawksworth in IMA Fungus (2019)

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Chapter F of the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants as approved by the 11th International Mycological Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico, July 2018

A revised version of Chapter F of the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants is presented, incorporating amendments approved by the Fungal Nomenclature Session of the 11th International M...

Tom W. May, Scott A. Redhead, Konstanze Bensch, David L. Hawksworth… in IMA Fungus (2019)

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News

David L. Hawksworth, Pedro W. Crous, Teun Boekhout in IMA Fungus (2018)

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Awards and Personalia

Meredith M. Blackwell, Robert A. Samson, Keith A. Seifert, Brian M. Spooner… in IMA Fungus (2018)