摘要
Species delimitation is one of the most fundamental processes in biology.Biodiversity undertakings,for instance,require explicit species concepts and criteria for species delimitation in order to be relevant and translatable.However,a perfect species concept does not exist for Fungi.Here,we review the species concepts commonly used in Basidiomycota,the second largest phylum of Fungi that contains some of the best known species of mushrooms,rusts,smuts,and jelly fungi.In general,best practice is to delimitate species,publish new taxa,and conduct taxonomic revisions based on as many independent lines of evidence as possible,that is,by applying a so-called unifying(or integrative)conceptual framework.However,the types of data used vary considerably from group to group.For this reason we discuss the different classes of Basidiomycota,and for each provide:(i)a general introduction with difficulties faced in species recognition,(ii)species concepts and methods for species delimitation,and(iii)community recommendations and conclusions.
基金
This project was performed with financial support of the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant No.2018YFD0400200)
the Biodiversity Survey and Assessment Project of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment,China(Grant No.2019HJ2096001006)
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.31961143010,31970010)
the Beijing Innovative Consortium of Agriculture Research System(no.BAIC05-2021)
the CAS Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Microbial Technology of Agriculture(Grant No.KFJ-PTXM-016).D.Haelewaters and N.Schoutteten are supported by the Research Foundation-Flanders(Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship No.1206620N to D.H.,Fundamental Research Fellowship No.11E0420N to N.S.).M.Thines is supported by the LOEWE initiative of the government of Hessen,in the framework of the Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics(TBG).
