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Fungal Diversity<br />

only do so under very rare circumstances and many fungi<br />

cannot be cultured (Begerow et al. 2010). More and more<br />

morpho-species have proven to be cryptic taxa, and already a<br />

large percentage of fungal diversity is documented only by<br />

DNA sequences. DNA sequence analysis is an essential way<br />

to resolve these problems. But are they enough for fully<br />

informed fungal taxonomy? Each single morphological<br />

character may be the outcome of the expression of one to<br />

numerous genes, which might be composed of thousands of<br />

base pairs. DNA barcoding methods are “a breakthroughfor<br />

identification, but they will not supplant the need to<br />

formulate and rigorously test species hypothesis” (Wheeler<br />

et al. 2004). Thus, integration of classical morphological<br />

approaches and DNA and protein based sequence comparisons<br />

are critical to produce a modern taxonomy that reflects<br />

evolutionary similarities and differences (DeSalle et al. 2005;<br />

Godfray 2002). In particular, the advent of comparative<br />

genomics and advances in our understanding of secondary<br />

metabolites and host or habitat spectra allow the possibility<br />

to tie phylogenetic hypotheses derived from DNA and<br />

protein sequence to the biology of the organisms. (Bitzer et<br />

al. 2008; Stajich et al. 2009; Zhang et al. 2009a, b).<br />

Acknowledgement We are grateful to the Directors and Curators of<br />

the following herbaria for loan of specimens in their keeping: BAFC,<br />

BISH, BPI, BR, BRIP, <strong>CBS</strong>, E, ETH, FFE, FH, G, H, Herb. J.<br />

Kohlmeyer, HHUF, IFRD, ILLS, IMI, K(M), L, LPS, M, MA, NY,<br />

PAD, PC, PH, RO, S, TNS, TRTC, UB, UBC, UPS and ZT; to Dr. L.<br />

Cai, Dr. A.J.L. Phillips, Dr. C. Shearer and some other mycologists for<br />

their permission to use or refer to their published figures, to J.K. Liu,<br />

H. Zhang, Y.L. Yang and J. Fournier for helping me loan or collect<br />

specimens, to H. Leung for technical help. The third coauthor<br />

acknowledges the Intramural Research Program of the NIH, National<br />

Library of Medicine. The Global Research Network and King Saud<br />

University are also thanked for support.<br />

Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the<br />

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any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any<br />

medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.<br />

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