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Major clades of Agaricales: a multilocus phylogenetic overview

     Biology Department, Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, 01610

Valérie Hofstetter

     Department of Biology, Box 90338, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708

M. Catherine Aime

     USDA-ARS, Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory, Room 304, Building 011A, 10300 Baltimore Avenue, Beltsville, Maryland 20705-2350

Jean-Marc Moncalvo

     Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Royal Ontario Museum and Department of Botany, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2C6 Canada

Zai-Wei Ge
Zhu-Liang Yang

     Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650204, P.R. China

Jason C. Slot

     Biology Department, Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, 01609

Joseph F. Ammirati

     University of Washington, Biology Department, Box 355325, Seattle, Washington 98195

Timothy J. Baroni

     Department of Biological Sciences, SUNY Cortland, Box 2000, Cortland, New York 13045-0900

Neale L. Bougher

     Department of Environment and Conservation, Locked Bag 104, Bentley Delivery Centre, WA 6983, Australia

Karen W. Hughes

     Botany Department, 437 Hesler Biology Building, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1100

D. Jean Lodge

     International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service – FPL, PO Box 1377 Luqillo, PR 00773-1377

Richard W. Kerrigan

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Michelle T. Seidl

     Environmental Microbiology Laboratory Inc., 1400 12th Avenue SE, Bellevue, Washington 98004

Duur K. Aanen

     Laboratory of Genetics, Arboretumlaan 4, 6703 BD, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Matthew DeNitis

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Graciela M. Daniele

     Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, CONICET-Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Casilla de Correo 495, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina

Dennis E. Desjardin

     Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California 94132

Bradley R. Kropp

     Department of Biology, Utah State University, Logan, Utah 84322

Lorelei L. Norvell

     Pacific Northwest Mycology Service, 6720 NW Skyline Boulevard, Portland, Oregon 97229-1309

Andrew Parker

     127 Raven Way, Metaline Falls, Washington 99153-9720

Else C. Vellinga

     Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, 111 Koshland Hall, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3102

Rytas Vilgalys

     Department of Biology, Box 90338, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708

David S. Hibbett

     Biology Department, Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, 01610

An overview of the phylogeny of the Agaricales is presented based on a multilocus analysis of a six-gene region supermatrix. Bayesian analyses of 5611 nucleotide characters of rpb1, rpb1-intron 2, rpb2 and 18S, 25S, and 5.8S ribosomal RNA genes recovered six major clades, which are recognized informally and labeled the Agaricoid, Tricholomatoid, Marasmioid, Pluteoid, Hygrophoroid and Plicaturopsidoid clades. Each clade is discussed in terms of key morphological and ecological traits. At least 11 origins of the ectomycorrhizal habit appear to have evolved in the Agaricales, with possibly as many as nine origins in the Agaricoid plus Tricholomatoid clade alone. A family-based phylogenetic classification is sketched for the Agaricales, in which 30 families, four unplaced tribes and two informally named clades are recognized.

Key words: Basidiomycota, fungi, phylogeny, mycorrhiza, systematics, rpb1, rpb2

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