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

9521926 Huhndorf在一项雄心勃勃的项目中，研究了一个大型的、具有重要生态意义的子囊菌群的系统分类学和系统发育学，即索达里亚目的成员，菲尔德博物馆的Sabine Huhndorf博士召集了一个令人印象深刻的团队，由国内外的合作者和学生组成。他们将解决当今真菌系统学面临的几个主要挑战，包括：(1)检查和测试子囊菌分类中使用的关键形态特征的变化，无论是环境的还是遗传的；(2)整合真菌生物的有性和无性阶段，这些阶段多年来经常被赋予不同的科学名称，纳入系统发育和分类；(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、科和目级名称；(4)中南美洲热带地区物种多样性评估；(5)培养研究生和博士后在真菌系统学传统和现代实践方面的能力。sordarian fungi的两个大属Chaetosphaeria和Lasiosphaeria的分类专著将是大部分野外工作和后续实验室和博物馆研究的重点。研究和培训企业有同事博士参与。菲尔德博物馆的格雷格·穆勒和弗朗索瓦·卢佐尼，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。学生们还将参加正在哥斯达黎加进行的实地工作和热带真菌学的专门课程。标本收集和其他计算机辅助活动的计算机化由于菲尔德博物馆对真菌学“地鼠”服务器和其他服务的支持而得到加强。

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.