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| Title |
One Fungus = One Name: DNA and fungal nomenclature twenty years after PCR
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|---|---|
| Published in |
IMA Fungus, July 2011
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| DOI | 10.5598/imafungus.2011.02.02.01 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
John W. Taylor |
| Abstract |
Some fungi with pleomorphic life-cycles still bear two names despite more than 20 years of molecular phylogenetics that have shown how to merge the two systems of classification, the asexual "Deuteromycota" and the sexual "Eumycota". Mycologists have begun to flout nomenclatorial regulations and use just one name for one fungus. The International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN) must change to accommodate current practice or become irrelevant. The fundamental difference in the size of fungi and plants had a role in the origin of dual nomenclature and continues to hinder the development of an ICBN that fully accommodates microscopic fungi. A nomenclatorial crisis also looms due to environmental sequencing, which suggests that most fungi will have to be named without a physical specimen. Mycology may need to break from the ICBN and create a MycoCode to account for fungi known only from environmental nucleic acid sequence (i.e. ENAS fungi). |
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The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 4 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 50% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 1 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 50% |
| Scientists | 2 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 268 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 2% |
| Brazil | 2 | <1% |
| South Africa | 2 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Denmark | 1 | <1% |
| Hungary | 1 | <1% |
| Rwanda | 1 | <1% |
| Poland | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 254 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 53 | 20% |
| Researcher | 44 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 31 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 30 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 20 | 7% |
| Other | 39 | 15% |
| Unknown | 51 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 139 | 52% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 22 | 8% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 14 | 5% |
| Environmental Science | 11 | 4% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 1% |
| Other | 17 | 6% |
| Unknown | 61 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 October 2022.
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#2,286,672
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#24
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#10,627
of 132,540 outputs
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#2
of 5 outputs
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