[Taxacom] describing species based on DNA sequences alone

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Rhizopogon kretserae has actually holotype which is fixed specimen of living culture. Living culture itself is deposited in DAOM. Code allows to describe fungi based on living cultures.

Urmas Kõljalg

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Prof. Urmas Kõljalg
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Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences
University of Tartu
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Estonia

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On 16.01.2017, at 6:00, Adolf Ceska <aceska at telus.net> wrote:

> Here is one example I came across: this mycorrhizal fungus was described from the root tips DNA. No sporocarps seen.
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> Grubisha, Lisa C., Nicholas J. Dowie, Steven L. Miller, Christina Hazard, Steven M. Trowbridge, Thomas R. Horton, and Matthew R. Klooster. "Rhizopogon kretzerae sp. nov.: the rare fungal symbiont in the tripartite system with Pterospora andromedea and Pinus strobus." Botany 92, no. 7 (2014): 527-534.
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> Adolf Ceska, Victoria, BC, Canada
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