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Nature 443, 758-761 (19 October 2006) | doi:10.1038/443758a; Published online 18 October 2006

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Evolutionary biology: A kingdom revised

Tom Bruns1

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An international consortium of researchers has produced an impressive new tree of life for the kingdom Fungi. The results are a testament to cooperation between systematists with different expertise.

On page 818 of this issue, James and colleagues1 provide a landmark study in fungal evolution. Before now, the only broadly sampled phylogenetic trees of the fungi were based on sequences of a single gene — that encoding the small-subunit (18S) ribosomal RNA.

  1. Tom Bruns is in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, 111 Koshland Hall, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3102, USA.
    Email: pogon@berkeley.edu

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