IMA Fungus 6(2): e33575, doi: 10.1007/BF03449356
Six simple guidelines for introducing new genera of fungi
Else Vellinga‡, Thomas W. Kuyper§, Joe Ammirati|, Dennis E. Desjardin¶, Roy E. Halling#, Alfredo Justo¤, Thomas Læssøe, Teresa Lebel«, D. Jean Lodge», P. Brandon Matheny˄, Andrew S. Methven, Pierre-Arthur Moreau˅, Gregory M. Mueller¦, Machiel E. Noordeloosˀ, Jorinde Nuytinckˀ, Clark L. Ovreboˁ, Annemieke Verbeken₵‡ University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America§ Wageningen University, Department of Soil Quality, Wageningen| University of Washington, Department of Biology, Seattle¶ San Francisco State University, Department of Biology, San Francisco# New York Botanical Garden, Institute of Systematic Botany, Bronx¤ Clark University, Lasry Biological Science Center, Biology Department, Worcester« Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Melbourne, Australia» Northern Research Station, USDA-Forest Service, Center for Forest Mycology Research, Luquillo˄ University of Tennessee, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Knoxville˅ Université de Lille, Département des Sciences Végétales et Fongiques, Faculté des sciences pharmaceutiques et biologiques, Lille, France¦ Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoeˀ Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, Leidenˁ University of Central Oklahoma, Department of Biology, Edmond₵ Ghent University, Department of Biology, Research group Mycology, Ghent, Belgium
© Else Vellinga, Thomas Kuyper, Joe Ammirati, Dennis Desjardin, Roy Halling, Alfredo Justo, Thomas Læssøe, Teresa Lebel, D. Lodge, P. Matheny, Andrew Methven, Pierre-Arthur Moreau, Gregory Mueller, Machiel Noordeloos, Jorinde Nuytinck, Clark Ovrebo, Annemieke Verbeken. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC 4.0), which permits to copy and distribute the article for non-commercial purposes, provided that the article is not altered or modified and the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Vellinga E, Kuyper TW, Ammirati J, Desjardin DE, Halling RE, Justo A, Læssøe T, Lebel T, Lodge DJ, Matheny PB, Methven AS, Moreau P-A, Mueller GM, Noordeloos ME, Nuytinck J, Ovrebo CL, Verbeken A (2015) Six simple guidelines for introducing new genera of fungi. IMA Fungus 6(2): e33575. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03449356 |  |
Abstract
We formulate five guidelines for introducing new genera, plus one recommendation how to publish the results of scientific research. We recommend that reviewers and editors adhere to these guidelines. We propose that the underlying research is solid, and that the results and the final solutions are properly discussed. The six criteria are: (1) all genera that are recognized should be monophyletic; (2) the coverage of the phylogenetic tree should be wide in number of species, geographic coverage, and type species of the genera under study; (3) the branching of the phylogenetic trees has to have sufficient statistical support; (4) different options for the translation of the phylogenetic tree into a formal classification should be discussed and the final decision justified; (5) the phylogenetic evidence should be based on more than one gene; and (6) all supporting evidence and background information should be included in the publication in which the new taxa are proposed, and this publication should be peer-reviewed.
Keywords
basidiomycetes, molecular systematics, nomenclature, phylogenetics, taxonomy