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continuously updated. Decision on changes is taken by
eight Boards of experts, viz. for Ascomycota (higher taxa),
Taphrinomycotina / Saccharomycotina, Arthoniomycetes /
Lecanoromycetes, Chaetothyriomycetes /
Dothideomycetes, Eurotiomycetes, Leotiomycetes,
Pezizomycetes, and Sordariomycetes. Results are published
in the electronic journal Myconet and in hard copies of the
same journal.
406 - FungalWeb
L. Lange
Molecular Biotechnology, Novozymes A/S, Denmark.
The FungalWeb has been established to make a
mycological web site that can provide the most current and
accurate fungal taxonomy. The users it is designed for
range from professional mycologists in academia and
industry to advanced high school students. What has been
done is to provide a classification for all fungal telemorph
genera, based on a combination of phenotypic and genetic
data. The FungalWeb as it is available today is the result of
a joined effort of a number of leading experts, together
covering all the fungal taxonomic groups. The planned next
steps for improving of the web site are the following:
Extend the web site to cover the genera Aspergillus and
Penicillium to species level. This will be done summer
2002, building on contribution of data from Samson,
Frisvad and Pitt. Extend the web site to as far as possible
also include and accommodate implacement of the
anamorphs. This will be done based on guidance and data
from K. Seifert. Planned implemetation fall 2002. In a
second generation FungalWeb it is planned to establish
links to all major mycological web sites and databases,
including pictures, secondary metabolites, pathogenesis,
ecology, industrial use etc. Further, FungalWeb needs
resources for scientific and technical maintenance and
development. Attempts will be made to have this secured
on coordination with the GBIF initiative.
407 - LIAS - A global information system for lichenized
and non-lichenized ascomycetes
D. Triebel
Botanische Staatssammlung Muenchen, Menzinger Strasse
67 D-80638 Muenchen, Germany. - E-mail:
triebel@botanik.biologie.uni-muenchen.de
The LIAS project was initiated in 1995. It is a multiauthored
information system for collecting and distributing
descriptive and other biodiversity data on lichens and nonlichenized
ascomycetes. Its goal is to provide a working
space for cooperation and collaboration of experts
(http://www.lias.net/). The data of the two core databases
are stored in DiversityDescriptions (= DELTAAccess) and
made available through several web interfaces. Using
HTML data submission forms automatically generated
from the LIAS databases, sets of descriptive data can be
established and interactively revised over the internet.
Taxon names are linked to various types of information (e.
g. more than 700 partly multi-stated descriptive characters),
allowing mycologists and lichenologists to co-operate
online and add their data to a common system for multiple
usage (identification keys, database generated natural
language descriptions, revisions etc.; with public or
restricted access). Currently more than 60 mycologists and
lichenologists world-wide are contributing as authors or
revisers. LIAS is co-operating with several flora and
database projects (e. g. the Sonoran Lichen Flora Project,
the Checklists of Lichens Project) and the Internet Portal
'Mycology.Net'. It will serve as Global Species Database
for lichens in context with the Species2000 initiative and
the EuroCat project.
408 - Recent Literature on Lichens
E. Timdal
Botanical Museum, University of Oslo, Sars' gate 1, N-
0562 Oslo, Norway. - E-mail: einar.timdal@nhm.uio.no
"Recent Literature on Lichens" (RLL) is a series published
in The Bryologist since 1951. It aims at listing all recently
published papers in lichenology, with a complete
bibliographic reference, keywords, and abstract - including
mention of all new scientific names and combinations. The
authors are William L. Culberson (in the period 1951-
1978), Robert S. Egan (1979-1991), and Theodore L.
Esslinger (from 1991). The lists have been computerized
by Egan and Esslinger, and the database is put on the Web
by the present author
(http://www.nhm.uio.no/botanisk/lav/RLL/RLL.HTM).
Together with "Mattick's Literature Index", originally a
card index in Berlin computerized and expanded by Harrie
J.M. Sipman, the data set now goes back to 1532, and
consists of more than 32,000 records. Members of
Myconet's Lecanoromycetes Board may use RLL as a tool
when scanning for taxonomic papers for review.
409 - Saccharomycotina and Taphrinomycotina
C.P. Kurtzman
Microbial Genomics Bioprocessing Research Unit
National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research,
ARS/USD Peoria, Illinois 61604, U.S.A.
Gene sequence comparisons have shown that presently
described, genera, families and orders in the
Saccharomycotina and Taphrinomycotina are often not
phylogenetically circumscribed. Single gene analyses are
generally inadequate for genus circumscription, but for the
Saccharomycetales genera seem to be strongly resolved in
datasets comprised of around 5,000 nucleotides. Family
groupings in such analyses are generally only weakly
supported. Consequently robust molecular phylogenies of
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