The Mycota. A Comprehensive Treatise on Fungi as Experimental Systems for Basic and Applied Research. Volume 7 A: McLaughlin, David J. and Joseph W. Spatafora (eds.): Systematics and Evolution. 2nd rev. ed. 2014. 91 (16 col.) figs. XXV, 461 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.

This volume presents an up-to-date overview of the fungalhierarchy. It includes fungal-like organisms, such as Excavata,Straminipila and Rhizaria, and fungi, such as Microsporidia,Chytridiomycota, Blastocladiomycota, zygomycetous fungi,Glomeromycota, Pucciniomycotina, Ustilagomycotina,Tremellomycetes, Darcomycetes, and Agaricomycetes. -CONTENTS: Fungi from PCR to genomics: The spreading revolution in evolutionary biology (John W. Taylor and Mary L. Berbee) / FUNGAL-LIKE ORGANISMS: Excavata: Acrasiomycota; Amoebozoa: Dictyosteliomycota, Myxomycota (Steven L. Stephenson) / Systematics of the Straminipila: Labyrinthu-lomycota, Hyphochytriomycota and Oomycota (G W Beakes, D Honda and M Thines)/ Rhizaria: Phytomyxea (Simon Bulman and James P. Braselton)/ FUNGI: Microsporidia (Elizabeth S. Didier, James J. Becnel, Michael L. Kent, Justin L. Sanders, and Louis M. Weiss) /Chytridiomycota, Monoblepharidomycota and Neocallimastigomycota (Martha J. Powell and Peter M. Letcher) / Blastocladiomycota (Timothy Y. James and Teresita M. Porter) / Zygomycetous Fungi: Phylum Entomophtthoromycota and subphyla Kickxellomycotina, Mortierellomycotina, Mucoromycotina, and Zoopagomycotina (Gerald L. Bennya, Richard A. Humber and Kerstin Voigt) /Glomeromycota (D. Redecker and A. Schüßler) / PucciniomycotinaM. Catherine Aime, Merje Toome and David J. McLaughlin)Ustilaginomycotina (D. Begerow,, A. M. Schäfer, R. Kellner, A. Yurkov, M. Kemler, F. Oberwinkler and R. Bauer)Tremellomycetes and related groups (Michael Weiß, Robert Bauer, José Paulo Sampaio, and Franz Oberwinkler) / Dacrymycetes(Franz Oberwinkler) / Agaricomycetes(D.S. Hibbett, R. Bauer, M. Binder, A.J. Giachini, K. Hosaka, A. Justo, E. Larsson, K.H. Larsson, J.D. Lawrey, O. Miettinen, L. Nagy, R.H. Nilsson, M. Weiß, and R.G. Thorn).