Flora and Fauna
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- Agaricomycotina: Jelly Fungi, Yeasts, and Mushrooms
- Information from the Tree of Life Web Project on this clade of the Basidiomycota including characteristics and a discussion of their phylogenetic relationships.
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- Basidiomycetes of the Greater Antilles
- Highlights research on the basidiomycetes of Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica. Includes information on the range of habitats in this area and an illustrated species list.
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- Basidiomycota
- Details from Wikipedia on the classification and typical life-cycle of members of this phylum.
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- Basidiomycota
- Information on members of this phylum from MicrobeWiki, the student-edited microbiology resource, including their description and significance, cell structure and metabolism, and ecology.
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- Basidiomycota: The Club Fungi
- Extensive information from the Tree of Life Web Project on this phylum including characteristics of the group and a discussion of their phylogenetic relationships.
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- Charismatic Megafungi: The Conservation of Waxcap Grasslands
- Article on the largely unseen fungi which are an important part of ancient pastures. [PDF]
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- Dimorphic Basidiomycetes
- Information about the systematics, ecology, and evolution of basidiomycetous fungi having a yeast stage.
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- Jelly Fungi
- Information and photographs of jelly fungi from the three orders Tremellales, Auriculariales and Dacrymycetales.
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- Jelly Fungus
- These fungi are so named because their fruiting body appears to be the consistency of jelly. They are found in the orders Tremellales, Auriculariales, and Dacrymycetales.
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- Key to Gilled Mushrooms and Polypores
- Key to the species found in the Great Lakes area of North America. Includes a glossary of terms.
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- Chytrid Fungus and Chytridiomycosis
- Information on the newly discovered fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, which is devastating populations of amphibia around the world.
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- Chytridiomycota
- Information from Wikipedia on the classification of this division of the kingdom Fungi whose members mostly live in water and are able to metabolise chitin and keratin.
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- Chytridiomycota: 14 Clades of Flagellated Fungi
- Paper on the molecular phylogeny of Chytridiomycota with a description of a new phylum, the Blastocladiomycota. [PDF]
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- Physoderma asphodelae
- Photographs of lesions caused by this chytridiomycete fungus and magnified images of sporangia.
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- Synchytrium endobioticum
- Information from Wikipedia on this chytrid fungus that causes potato wart disease, its systematics, morphology, life cycle and ecology.
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- Synchytrium erieum
- Photographs of ribwort plantain infected by this chytrid and magnified images of the spores.
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- Synchytrium succisae
- Photographs of devil’s bit scabious infected by this chytrid and magnified images of the spores.
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- Glomerales
- Information from Wikipedia about this group of underground fungi which exchange nutrients with higher plants through a mycorrhizal arrangement.