PEET: Monographs of Two Key Genera and Family-Level Phylogeny (Fungi, Ascomycetes, Sordariales)

小行星9521926 在一个雄心勃勃的项目，研究系统学和子囊菌真菌的一个大的和生态上重要的群体，Sordariales的成员，博士萨宾·Huhndorf菲尔德博物馆已经组装了一个令人印象深刻的团队的合作者和学生，在国内和国际上。 他们将解决当今真菌系统学面临的几个主要挑战，包括：（1）检查和测试在子囊菌分类学中使用的关键形态特征的变化，无论是环境还是遗传;（2）将多年来经常被赋予不同科学名称的真菌有机体的有性和无性阶段整合到分类和分类中;（3）通过对形态和分子（DNA）证据进行严格的系统发育分析，稳定属、科和目级别的名称;（4）评估中美洲和南美洲选定热带地区的物种多样性;（5）在传统和现代真菌系统学实践中培训研究生和博士后水平的学生。 两个大属的Sordarian真菌，Chaetosphaeria和Lasiosphaeria的分类学专著，将是许多实地工作和随后的实验室和博物馆研究的重点。 研究和培训企业涉及菲尔德博物馆的Greg Mueller和Francois Lutzoni博士以及加拿大，法国和瑞典的其他人，以及巴拿马和厄瓜多尔的同事。 学生还将参加正在进行的实地工作在哥斯达黎加和热带真菌学的专业课程。 菲尔德博物馆对真菌学“地鼠”服务器和其他服务的支持，加强了标本收集和其他计算机辅助活动的计算机化。

9521926 Huhndorf In an ambitious project to study the systematics and phylogeny of a large and ecologically important group of ascomycete fungi, members of the Sordariales, Dr. Sabine Huhndorf of the Field Museum has assembled an impressive team of collaborators and students, both nationally and internationally. They will address several of the major challenges facing fungal systematics today, including: (1) examining and testing variation, whether environmental or genetic, in key morphological characters used in ascomycete taxonomy; (2) integrating sexual and asexual stages of the fungal organism, which have often been given different scientific names over the years, into phylogenies and classification; (3) stabilizing genus, family, and order-level names through a rigorous phylogenetic analysis of morphological and molecular (DNA) evidence; (4) assessing species diversity in selected tropical regions of Central and South America; and (5) training students at graduate and postdoctoral levels in traditional and modern practices of fungal systematics. Taxonomic monographs of two large genera of sordarian fungi, Chaetosphaeria and Lasiosphaeria, will be the focus of much of the field work and subsequent laboratory and museum study. The research and training enterprises involve colleagues Drs. Greg Mueller and Francois Lutzoni at the Field Museum as well as others in Canada, France, and Sweden, and with colleagues in Panama and Ecuador. Students will also participate in ongoing field work in Costa Rica and in specialized courses in tropical mycology. Computerization of specimen collections and other computer-assisted activities are enhanced by the Field Museum's support for a mycology "gopher" server and other services.