[Taxacom] describing species based on DNA sequences alone

[Redhead, Scott]

Another correction. It is a dried culture (specimen) not the root tips that is the holotype and not a living culture. The root tips were a paratype. 

Scott

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To: 'Urmas Kõljalg'; Adolf Ceska
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Subject: RE: [Taxacom] describing species based on DNA sequences alone

Actually, the type of Rhizopogon kretserae is a collection of dried mycorrhizal root tips , in this one case, not the culture.

Scott


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Sent: January-16-17 2:38 AM
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Subject: Re: [Taxacom] describing species based on DNA sequences alone

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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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.
> 
> 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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