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Cover Letter
February 8, 2007
Dr. David L. Hawksworth
Chief Executive Editor
Mycological Research
Dear David:
Please find enclosed the revised version of our manuscript titled “A Higher-Level
Phylogenetic Classification of the Fungi”, intended for Mycological Research. Thank you
very much for moving ahead so promptly with the review of our original submission,
and also for your careful editing. Thanks to your work, and that of many other
coauthors, there have been numerous minor corrections, updates to the literature, etc.
Below, I describe the major changes that have appeared since you last handled the ms:
• Table 1 has been separated into three separate tables.
• Figure 1 has been separated into three separate figures. I did not replace these
with color versions, but if you think that would improve clarity, then I will be
happy to do so.
• MycoBank numbers have been provided for all new taxa (thanks to Joost
Stalpers).
• John Taylor and Valerie Hofstetter decided they should not be listed as
coauthors.
• Claude Roux, Jolanta Miadlikowska, Valerie Reeb, Cecile Gueidan, and Jospeh
Ironside have been added as coauthors.
• It was discovered that Agaricomycetidae was described by Parmasto (1986), so that
is no longer listed as a new taxon, and the abstract and main text have been
modified accordingly. I inserted some comments regarding the different
delimitations of Agaricomycetidae in the present work vs. Parmasto (1986).
• The citation for Chytridiomycetes was revised to Caval.-Sm. (1998). This is not an
easy problem. I consulted the de Bary (1863) volume that was cited and it does
not contain Chytridiomycetes (I looked at every page and checked the index). The
text cites the usage of this name inSerbinow (1907), Cejp (1957), Sparrow (1958),
and Alexopoulos et al. (1996). I also included a note directing readers to David
(2002), which contains more information about the history of this name.
• Bibliographic information has been filled in for Fischer (“1891”), Schröter (1889),
and Winter (1880). However, I was not able to find the Corner citation for
Thelephorales. The Oberwinkler citation should be adequate, I think.
• References to Mycologia 98(6) have been changed from 2006 to 2007, including the
tables. However, I have not included page numbers for this issue, because it is
quite possible that repagination will be needed after corrections of errors that
remained in the proofs. I will add page numbers for this issue at the proof stage.