Grants 148/2012,144/2013 and 71/2015“Lichinomycetes i Sverige”from the Swedish Taxonomy Initiative(Svenska artprojektet)administered by the Swedish Species Information Center(ArtDatabanken);Grant 2016-03589 from the Swedish Research Council(VR).
Here,we show that Lichinodium(Lichinaceae,Lichinomycetes,Ascomycota)constitutes a formerly unrecognized lineage within the Leotiomycetes,thus being the first lichenized lineage recognized in the superclass Sordariomyc...
This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31360015);the CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams,and the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.KSCX2-EW-Z-9 KIB2016002);Kevin D.Hyde would like to thank the Thailand Research Funds entitled Impact of climate change on fungal diversity and biogeography in the Greater Mekong Subregion(grant no:RDG6130001).
The class Pezizomycetes is monophyletic within the subdivision Pezizomycotina. The main distinguishing character of thisclass is operculate asci, although in some taxa this character has been lost. The circumscription...
This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31360015);the Autonomous Deployment Program of the Kunming Institute of Botany,Chinese Academy of Sciences(Nos.KIB2016002 and Y62B9111Q1)and the CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams;Peter R.Johnston and Robert Lucking are thanked for providing suggestions during the preparation of this manuscript,Martin Ryberg is thanked for discussion on the evolution of discomycetes and Samantha C.Karunarathna is thanked for suppling some photographs used in this manuscript.Kevin D.Hyde thanks the Chinese Academy of Sciences,Project No.2013T2S0030,for the award of Visiting Professorship for Senior International Scientists at Kunming Institute of Botany;Alan JL Phillips acknowledges the support from Biosystems and Integrative Sciences Institute(BioISI,FCT/UID/Multi/04046/2013);Anusha H.Ekanayaka was supported by a postgraduate scholarship from Professor Gareth Jones.Anusha H.Ekanayaka is grateful to(Late)Mr.W.Ekanayaka and Mrs.C.Ekanayaka and Mr.A.Surasinghe for their valuable support and encouragement.
Discomycetes are an artificial grouping of apothecia-producing fungi in the phylum Ascomycota.Molecular-based studies have revealed that the discomycetes can be found among ten classes of Ascomycota.The classification...
Supported by the Systematic Mycology and Lichenology Laboratory and the National Natural Science Foundation of China ACKN0WLEDGEMENTS The author gratefully acknowledges the support of K. C. Wong Education Foundation, Hong Kong: the following scientists of different institutions, J.-z. Cao, B.-z. He, C.-1 Hou, Y.-r. Lin, B. Liu, G. Song, K. Tao, and M. Zang, who provided useful references for this study: Profs. B. Liu and R. -y. Zheng' s critical review of the paper: and Prof. R.P. Korf' s continuous inspiration.