Molecular Phylogenetics and Estimation of Evolutionary Divergence and Biogeography of the Family Cordycipitaceae (Ascomycota, Hypocreales) by Huili Pu, Jiao Yang, Nemat O. Keyhani, Lixia Yang, Minhai Zheng, Chenghao Qiu, Yuchen Mao, Junya Shang, Yongsheng Lin, Chengjie Xiong, Longbing Lin, Pengyu Lai, Yanbin Huang, Xin Yuan, Huiling Liang, Longfei Fan, Xiaoli Ma, Chunjin Qiu, Junzhi Qiu

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Molecular Phylogenetic Relationships Based on Mitogenomes of Spider: Insights Into Evolution and Adaptation to Extreme Environments by Rongxiang Zhang, Niyan Xiang, Xiaoman Gao, Guiyu Zhang, Tian Lu, Tao Yuan

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Author Correction: Taxonomy and Identification of the Genus Scolopendra in China Using Integrated Methods of External Morphology and Molecular Phylogenetics by Sihe Kang, Yimei Liu, Xiaoxuan Zeng, Haiying Deng, Ying Luo, Keli Chen, Shilin Chen

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Molecular phylogenetics of the Ophiocordyceps sinensis-species complex lineage (Ascomycota, Hypocreales), with the discovery of new species and predictions of species distribution by Yongdong Dai, Siqi Chen, Yuanbing Wang, Yao Wang, Zhuliang Yang, Hong Yu

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Shivasia gen. nov. for the Australasian smut Ustilago solida that historically shifted through five different genera by Matthias Lutz, Kálmán Vánky, Marcin Piątek

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Molecular phylogenetic studies on the lichenicolous Xanthoriicola physciae reveal Antarctic rock-inhabiting fungi and Piedraia species among closest relatives in the Teratosphaeriaceae by C. Ruibal, A.M. Millanes, D.L. Hawksworth

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How to describe a new fungal species by K.A. Seifert, A.Y. Rossman

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Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis of 16S rRNA Sequences Identified Two Lineages of Helicobacter pylori Strains Detected from Different Regions in Sudan Suggestive of Differential Evolution by Abeer Babiker Idris, Hadeel Gassim Hassan, Maryam Atif Salaheldin Ali, Sulafa Mohamed Eltaher, Leena Babiker Idris, Hisham N. Altayb, Amin Mohamed Abass, Mustafa Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim, El-Amin Mohamed Ibrahim, Mohamed A. Hassan

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One Fungus = One Name: DNA and fungal nomenclature twenty years after PCR by J.W. Taylor

“…Some fungi with pleomorphic life-cycles still bear two names despite more than 20 years of molecular phylogenetics that have shown how to merge the two systems of classification, the asexual “Deuteromycota” and the sexual “Eumycota”. …”
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A taxonomic summary of Aphelidiaceae by Peter M. Letcher, Martha J. Powell

“…Recent studies in molecular phylogenetics have revealed an abundance of related environmental sequences that indicate unrealized biodiversity within the group. …”
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Five New Species of Pezizales from Northeastern China by Zhengqing Chen, Tolgor Bau

“…A total of five species of disk fungi from Northeast China were identified and described based on morphological classification and molecular phylogenetics. These included <i>Pulvinula</i> (<i>Pulvinula elsenensis</i>, <i>Pulvinula sublaeterubra</i>), <i>Microstoma</i> (<i>Microstoma jilinense</i>, <i>Microstoma changchunense</i>), and <i>Sarcoscypha</i> (<i>Sarcoscypha hongshiensis</i>). …”
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Molecular phylogeny and comparative chloroplast genome analysis of the type species Crucigenia quadrata by Ting Wang, Huan Feng, Huan Zhu, Bojian Zhong

“…Results In this study, we utilize molecular phylogenetics and comparative genomics to show that C. quadrata belongs to Chlorophyceae rather than Trebouxiophyceae. …”
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Recent results of molecularphylogenetic studies of endemic invertebrates inhabiting Lake Baikal by D. Yu. Sherbakov, M. V. Kovalenkova, O. O. Maikova

“…This review deals mostly with the results obtained during last two decades by means of molecular phylogenetics. The main common features found to date include, first of all, a relatively young age of the most recent common ancestor of the majority of species flocks. …”
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The world’s most venomous spider is a species complex: systematics of the Sydney funnel-web spider (Atracidae: Atrax robustus) by Stephanie F. Loria, Svea-Celina Frank, Nadine Dupérré, Helen M. Smith, Braxton Jones, Bruno A. Buzatto, Danilo Harms

“…In this study, we use a combination of molecular phylogenetics, divergence time analyses and morphology to establish the Sydney funnel-web spider as a complex of three species. …”
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Two new arthroconidial yeast species from bark and pit mud in China by Hai-Yan Zhu, Yu-Hua Wei, Liang-Chen Guo, Zhang Wen, Shuang Hu, Di-Qiang Wang, Xiao-Long You, En-Di Fan, Shang-Jie Yao, Feng-Yan Bai, Pei-Jie Han

“…A study on yeast species from the genera Geotrichum and Magnusiomyces in southwest and central China was conducted based on morphological and molecular phylogenetic analyses using the ITS region and the D1/D2 domain of the LSU rRNA gene. …”
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First record of Morimotobathynella Serban, 2000 (Bathynellacea, Bathynellidae) from subterranean waters of South Korea, with the description of a new species by Su-Jung Ji, Ana Isabel Camacho, Gi-Sik Min

“…However, the presence or absence of the median seta on the antenna exopod, along with the length differences between the four spines in the furca, distinguish the new species from M. miurai, 2000. A molecular phylogenetic analysis indicates that the new species has a relatively close relationship to species from the genus Altainella in Mongolia and Russia.…”
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Cryptic species in lichen-forming fungi by A. Crespo, T.H. Lumbsch

“…In several cases, a re-examination of morphology against the background of molecular phylogenetic evidence revealed, sometimes subtle, morphological and/or chemical characters, supporting the distinction of particular clades at species level. …”
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Three new asexual Kirschsteiniothelia species from Guizhou Province, China by Xing-Juan Xiao, Ning-Guo Liu, Jian Ma, Li-Juan Zhang, Dan-Feng Bao, Song Bai, Fatimah Al-Otibi, Kevin D. Hyde, Yong-Zhong Lu

“…Based on distinct morphological characteristics and molecular phylogenetic evidence, we describe three new species: Kirschsteiniothelia guizhouensis, K. weiningensis, and K. xishuiensis. …”
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Gastrochilus obovatifolius (Orchidaceae, Aeridinae), a new species from the Daba Mountains of Chongqing, China by Chi Xiong, Xiao-Ying Fu, Ke Tan, Ya Huang, Hong-Jing Zhang, Yi-Chen Wang, Yu-Bing Yang, Si-Rong Yi

“…The results of molecular phylogenetic analysis, based on nuclear ribosome internal transcribed spacer (nrITS) and four chloroplast DNA fragments (matK, psbA–trnH, psbM–trnD, and trnL–F) of 55 Gastrochilus species, support the inclusion of G. obovatifolius in G. sect. …”
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Isolation of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 Virus from Saker Falcons (Falco cherrug) in the Middle East by Henju Marjuki, Ulrich Wernery, Hui-Ling Yen, John Franks, Patrick Seiler, David Walker, Scott Krauss, Robert G. Webster

“…We studied the antigenic, molecular, phylogenetic, and pathogenic properties of 2 HPAI H5N1 viruses isolated from dead falcons in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in 2005 and 2007, respectively. …”
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