Evolution of marine mushrooms. From: The Biological Bulletin | Date: December 1, 2001| Author: Binder, Manfred; Hibbett, David S. | COPYRIGHT 2001 Marine Biological Laboratory. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

David S. Hibbett (*)

Fungi make up one of the most diverse, ecologically important groups of eukaryotes. The vast majority of fungi are terrestrial, but the chytridiomycetes, a basal group of fungi, includes flagellated, unicellular, aquatic forms, and it is likely that this was the ancestral condition of the group (1). The more derived groups of fungi--zygomycetes, ascomycetes, and basidiomycetes--are all predominantly filamentous and terrestrial, and lack flagellated c...