New light on names and naming of dark taxa

A New Classification of the Dictyostelids

(2018) Sanea Sheikh et al.   PROTIST

Description of Bifiguratus adelaidae: The hunt ends for one of the “Top 50 Most Wanted Fungi”

(2017) Timothy Y. James et al.   MYCOLOGIA

Bifiguratus adelaidae, gen. et sp. nov., a new member of Mucoromycotina in endophytic and soil-dwelling habitats

(2017) Terry J. Torres-Cruz et al.   MYCOLOGIA

Pattersoniomyces tillandsiae gen. et comb. nov.: linking sexual and asexual morphs of the only known smut fungus associated with Bromeliaceae

(2017) Marcin Piątek et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

Improving taxonomic accuracy for fungi in public sequence databases: applying ‘one name one species’ in well-defined genera with Trichoderma/Hypocrea as a test case

(2017) Barbara Robbertse et al.   Database-The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation

Hawksworthiomyces gen. nov. (Ophiostomatales), illustrates the urgency for a decision on how to name novel taxa known only from environmental nucleic acid sequences (ENAS)

(2016) Z. Wilhelm de Beer et al.   Fungal Biology

Discovery of dark matter fungi in aquatic ecosystems demands a reappraisal of the phylogeny and ecology of zoosporic fungi

(2016) Hans-Peter Grossart et al.   Fungal Ecology

DNA barcoding and taxonomy: dark taxa and dark texts

(2016) Roderic D. M. Page   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Digital identifiers for fungal species

(2016) U. Kõljalg et al.   SCIENCE

(308–310) Proposals to permit DNA sequence data to serve as types of names of fungi

(2016) David L. Hawksworth et al.   TAXON

Top 50 most wanted fungi

(2016) R. Henrik Nilsson et al.   MycoKeys

Genomic Expansion of Domain Archaea Highlights Roles for Organisms from New Phyla in Anaerobic Carbon Cycling

(2015) Cindy J. Castelle et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Molecular operational taxonomic units as approximations of species in the light of evolutionary models and empirical data from Fungi

(2015) Martin Ryberg   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Standardizing metadata and taxonomic identification in metabarcoding studies

(2015) Leho Tedersoo et al.   GigaScience

Entorrhizomycota: A New Fungal Phylum Reveals New Perspectives on the Evolution of Fungi

(2015) Robert Bauer et al.   PLoS One

Epitypification and neotypification: guidelines with appropriate and inappropriate examples

(2014) Hiran A. Ariyawansa et al.   FUNGAL DIVERSITY

Sleepless nights: When you can't find anything to use but molecules to describe new taxa

(2014) Erin A. Tripp et al.   TAXON

Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi

(2012) C. L. Schoch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

No Name, No Game

(2012) Yves Samyn et al.   European Journal of Taxonomy

Where is the unseen fungal diversity hidden? A study of Mortierella reveals a large contribution of reference collections to the identification of fungal environmental sequences

(2011) László G. Nagy et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Archaeorhizomycetes: Unearthing an Ancient Class of Ubiquitous Soil Fungi

(2011) A. Rosling et al.   SCIENCE

Fungal ecology catches fire

(2009) David S. Hibbett et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Species as Ranked Taxa

(2009) David A. Baum   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Mining metadata from unidentified ITS sequences in GenBank: A case study in Inocybe (Basidiomycota)

(2008) Martin Ryberg et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Widespread occurrence and phylogenetic placement of a soil clone group adds a prominent new branch to the fungal tree of life

(2007) T.M. Porter et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION