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15 - Fungal species: thoughts on their recognition, maintenance and selection

from V - Environmental population genetics of fungi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2009

By
John W. Taylor ,
Elizabeth Turner ,
Anne Pringle ,
Jeremy Dettman  and
Hanna Johannesson
Edited by
Geoffrey Gadd ,
Sarah C. Watkinson  and
Paul S. Dyer
John W. Taylor
Affiliation:
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Elizabeth Turner
Affiliation:
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Anne Pringle
Affiliation:
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Jeremy Dettman
Affiliation:
Department of Botany, University of Toronto
Hanna Johannesson
Affiliation:
Department of Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala University
Geoffrey Gadd
Affiliation:
University of Dundee
Sarah C. Watkinson
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Paul S. Dyer
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham
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When it comes to fungal species and speciation, it is hard to find anything to say that has not already been said in several excellent recent reviews. The most comprehensive source of information is Burnett's recent book (Burnett, 2003), which expands upon the themes from his British Mycological Society Presidential Address (Burnett, 1983). In addition to reviewing mycological species concepts and speciation, he describes enough about basic mycology and the methodology of evolutionary studies to make chapters on defining fungal individuals and populations, or on the processes of evolution in fungi, useful for mycologists interested in evolution and for evolutionary biologists interested in fungi. Burnett's review of the early literature in fungal speciation is particularly helpful in the present age, when it seems as if literature that is not online is forgotten. A second source of information is Brasier (1997), who explored three of what he considered to be the four main elements contributing to fungal speciation: original interbreeding populations, natural selection on populations and reproductive isolation between populations. He left a discussion of mating systems to others. Brasier's discussion of natural selection is particularly good, and his figure comparing the narrow range of growth rates of dikaryotic hyphae taken from Schizophyllum commune fruiting bodies to the much broader range of growth rates for dikaryons synthesized from their haploid progeny is as clear a demonstration of the effects of selection as one could want.

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Fungi in the Environment , pp. 313 - 339
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2007

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Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

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