Fungal Molecular Systematics

The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees.

1987 • 59,130 citations

CONFIDENCE LIMITS ON PHYLOGENIES: AN APPROACH USING THE BOOTSTRAP

1985 • 39,646 citations

AMPLIFICATION AND DIRECT SEQUENCING OF FUNGAL RIBOSOMAL RNA GENES FOR PHYLOGENETICS

1990 • 31,614 citations

Primer-Directed Enzymatic Amplification of DNA with a Thermostable DNA Polymerase

1988 • 17,059 citations

DNA polymorphisms amplified by arbitrary primers are useful as genetic markers

1990 • 13,450 citations

Mathematical model for studying genetic variation in terms of restriction endonucleases.

1979 • 10,442 citations

Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya.

1990 • 5,831 citations

[21] Specific synthesis of DNA in vitro via a polymerase-catalyzed chain reaction

1987 • 5,745 citations

Rapid genetic identification and mapping of enzymatically amplified ribosomal DNA from several Cryptococcus species

1990 • 5,139 citations

Dynamics of mitochondrial DNA evolution in animals: amplification and sequencing with conserved primers.

1989 • 4,904 citations

Rapid determination of 16S ribosomal RNA sequences for phylogenetic analyses.

1985 • 2,964 citations

PHYLOGENIES FROM MOLECULAR SEQUENCES: INFERENCE AND RELIABILITY

1988 • 2,143 citations

Genetic diversity in Sargasso Sea bacterioplankton

1990 • 1,666 citations

Generation of single-stranded DNA by the polymerase chain reaction and its application to direct sequencing of the HLA-DQA locus.

1988 • 1,582 citations

Codon selection in yeast.

1982 • 1,580 citations

16S rRNA sequences reveal numerous uncultured microorganisms in a natural community

1990 • 1,401 citations

Mitochondrial DNA and two perspectives on evolutionary genetics

1985 • 1,260 citations

Ribosomal RNA sequence shows Pneumocystis carinii to be a member of the Fungi

1988 • 784 citations

Evolution of the vacuolar H+-ATPase: implications for the origin of eukaryotes.

1989 • 776 citations

Direct Cloning and Sequence Analysis of Enzymatically Amplified Genomic Sequences

1986 • 766 citations

The similarity index and DNA fingerprinting.

1990 • 656 citations

Identification of indigenous and introduced symbiotic fungi in ectomycorrhizae by amplification of nuclear and mitochondrial ribosomal DNA

1991 • 485 citations

Molecular evidence for genetic exchanges among ribosomal genes on nonhomologous chromosomes in man and apes.

1980 • 454 citations

Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth

1988 • 423 citations

A rate-independent technique for analysis of nucleic acid sequences: evolutionary parsimony.

1987 • 389 citations

Chloroplast DNA sequence from a Miocene Magnolia species

1990 • 348 citations

Production of single-stranded DNA templates by exonuclease digestion following the polymerase chain reaction

1989 • 342 citations

Mitochondrial resolution of a deep branch in the genealogical tree for perching birds

1991 • 312 citations

A Candida albicans dispersed, repeated gene family and its epidemiologic applications.

1988 • 277 citations

Host species-specific conservation of a family of repeated DNA sequences in the genome of a fungal plant pathogen.

1989 • 273 citations

DNA finger printing by oligonucleotide probes specific for simple repeats

1986 • 273 citations

Origin and evolution of organisms as deduced from 5S ribosomal RNA sequences.

1987 • 266 citations

Genetic analysis of the fungus, Bremia lactucae, using restriction fragment length polymorphisms.

1988 • 261 citations

Phylogeny of some Fusarium species, as determined by large-subunit rRNA sequence comparison.

1989 • 249 citations

Genome comparison in yeast systematics: delimitation of species within the genera Schwanniomyces, Saccharomyces, Debaryomyces, and Pichia

1978 • 248 citations

Evolutionary relationships among pathogenic Candida species and relatives

1991 • 246 citations

Ancient origin of lactalbumin from lysozyme: Analysis of DNA and amino acid sequences

1988 • 242 citations

The complete DNA sequence of the mitochondrial genome of Podospora anserina

1990 • 215 citations

Accelerated evolution of a false-truffle from a mushroom ancestor

1989 • 193 citations

Sequence Analysis of the Small Subunit Ribosomal Rnas of Three Zoosporic Fungi and Implications for Fungal Evolution

1990 • 183 citations

Evolution of Eukaryotic Microorganisms and Their Small Subunit Ribosomal RNAs

1989 • 176 citations

Molecular evolution of the fungi: relationship of the Basidiomycetes, Ascomycetes, and Chytridiomycetes.

1992 • 175 citations

DNA Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms AmongMycosphaerella graminicola(AnamorphSeptoria tritici) Isolates Collected from a Single Wheat Field

1990 • 174 citations

Two New and Closely Related Heterothallic Species, Pichia amylophila and Pichia mississippiensis: Characterization by Hybridization and Deoxyribonucleic Acid Reassociation

1980 • 169 citations

Phylogenetic relationships among eukaryotic kingdoms inferred from ribosomal RNA sequences

1985 • 168 citations

A naturally occurring horizontal gene transfer from a eukaryote to a prokaryote

1990 • 150 citations

Molecular phylogeny of Dictyostelium discoideum by protein sequence comparison.

1990 • 144 citations

Rapid purification of yeast mitochondrial DNA in high yield

1980 • 138 citations

Amplification and Sequencing of DNA from Fungal Herbarium Specimens

1990 • 135 citations

Ribosomal DNA Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms inRhizoctonia solani

1990 • 135 citations

Electrophoretic Karyotypes of Fungi: The New Cytology

1990 • 133 citations

Direct ribosomal RNA sequencing: Optimization of extraction and sequencing methods for work with higher plants

1988 • 132 citations

Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA diversity within six species ofPhytophthora

1990 • 124 citations

Relatedness of Strains ofFusarium oxysporumfrom Crucifers Measured by Examination of Mitochondrial and Ribosomal DNA

1987 • 123 citations

THERMOSTABLE DNA POLYMERASES

1990 • 122 citations

The Polymerase Chain Reaction: Clinical Applications

1992 • 113 citations

Independent transfer of mitochondrial chromosomes and plasmids during unstable vegetative fusion in Neurospora

1990 • 113 citations

Affinity generation of single-stranded DNA for dideoxy sequencing following the polymerase chain reaction

1989 • 113 citations

Identification, molecular cloning and sequence analysis of a gene cluster encoding the Class II fructose 1,6‐bisphosphate aldolase, 3‐phosphoglycerate kinase and a putative second glyceraldehyde 3‐phosphate dehydrogenase of Escherichia coli

1989 • 108 citations

Molecular Systematics at the Species Boundary: Exploiting Conserved and Variable Regions of the Mitochondrial Genome of Animals via Direct Sequencing from Amplified DNA

1991 • 107 citations

Variability of mitochondrial DNA as an indicator of relationships between populations of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. melonis

1990 • 98 citations

The Nucleotide Sequence of the Small Ribosomal Subunit RNA of the Yeast Candida albicans and the Evolutionary Position of the Fungi among the Eukaryotes

1989 • 97 citations

Organization of ribosomal RNA genes in the fungus Cochliobolus heterostrophus

1988 • 96 citations

Redividing the basidiomycetes on the basis of 5S rRNA sequences

1982 • 95 citations

Phylogenetic analysis based on rRNA sequences supports the archaebacterial rather than the eocyte tree

1989 • 92 citations

Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth

1988 • 91 citations

Organization of the ribosomal ribonucleic acid genes in various wild-type strains and wild-collected strains of Neurospora

1984 • 90 citations

Restriction fragment length polymorphisms of mitochondrial DNA of Phytophthora infestans

1990 • 90 citations

Molecular phylogeny of the kingdoms Animalia, Plantae, and Fungi.

1989 • 89 citations

Dictyostelium rDNA consists of non-chromosomal palindromic dimers containing 5S and 36S coding regions

1978 • 89 citations

Restriction fragment length polymorphisms in mitochondrial DNAs of Armillaria: identification of North American biological species

1989 • 87 citations

VARIATION IN RIBOSOMAL DNA AMONG BIOLOGICAL SPECIES OF ARMILLARIA , A GENUS OF ROOT‐INFECTING FUNGI

1989 • 86 citations

Disparate evolution of yeasts and filamentous fungi indicated by phylogenetic analysis of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase genes.

1989 • 79 citations

Polymorphisms in DNA of Coprinus cinereus

1983 • 77 citations

DNA Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism and Somatic Variation in the Lettuce Downy Mildew Fungus,Bremia lactucae

1988 • 76 citations

Variation in the ribosomal RNA genes among individuals of Vicia faba

1986 • 72 citations

Assessing the Reliability of 5S rRNA Sequence Data for Phylogenetic Analysis in Green Plants

1991 • 72 citations

The Aspergillus nidulans mitochondrial genome

1985 • 71 citations

Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms in the Nuclear Ribosomal DNA of FourLaccariaspp.:L. bicolor, L. laccata, L. proxima,andL. amethystina

1990 • 67 citations

Taxonomic structure of Phytophthora cryptogea and P. drechsleri based on isozyme and mitochondrial DNA analyses

1991 • 66 citations

Compositional statistics: An improvement of evolutionary parsimony and its application to deep branches in the tree of life

1990 • 64 citations

Evolutionary Relationships of Lentinus to the Polyporaceae: Evidence from Restriction Analysis of Enzymatically Amplified Ribosomal Dna

1991 • 63 citations

Estimation of Relatedness BetweenPhytophthoraSpecies by Analysis of Mitochondrial DNA

1988 • 63 citations

Unique sequence arrangement of ribosomal genes in the palindromic rDNA molecule of Physarum polycephalum

1979 • 62 citations

Mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms in Laccaria bicolor, L. laccata, L. proxima and L. amethystina

1991 • 61 citations

Restriction fragment length polymorphisms of the mitochondrial DNA of Phytophthora megasperma isolated from soybean, alfalfa, and fruit trees

1989 • 60 citations

The Variable Mitochondrial Genome of Ascomycetes: Organization, Mutational Alterations, and Expression

1988 • 60 citations

5S Ribosomal RNA Sequences Inappropriate for Phylogenetic Reconstruction

1991 • 59 citations

Upper Eocene Gilled Mushroom from the Dominican Republic

1990 • 56 citations

Transmission of mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid in Neurospora crassa sexual crosses

1979 • 56 citations

Variation in the ribosomal DNA repeat unit within single-oospore isolates of the genus Pythium

1990 • 56 citations

Fungal associations in the terrestrial paleoecosystern

1990 • 55 citations

Phylogenetic Relationships among Species of Sterigmatomyces and Fellomyces as Determined from Partial rRNA Sequences

1990 • 54 citations

EVOLUTION AND MITOCHONDRIAL DNA IN NEUROSPORA CRASSA

1986 • 53 citations

Mitochondrial DNAs of Suillus: three fold size change in molecules that share a common gene order

1988 • 52 citations

Isolation and characterization of mitochondrial DNA of the oomycetous fungus Phytophthora infestans

1984 • 52 citations

Evolution of mushroom mitochondrial DNA:Suillus and related genera

1989 • 51 citations

The fungus lore of the Greeks and Romans

1914 • 48 citations

Species delimitation in the Armillaria mellea complex by analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial DNAs

1987 • 48 citations

Mitochondrial DNA and evolution of heterothallic and pseudohomothallic Neurospora species

1989 • 47 citations

Taxonomic classification of asexual isolates ofPythium ultimum based on cultural characteristics and mitochondrial DNA restriction patterns

1990 • 47 citations

Nucleic Acid Relatedness Among Yeasts

1983 • 47 citations

Independent transfer of mitochondrial plasmids in Neurospora crassa

1989 • 46 citations

RANDOM‐FRAGMENT HYBRIDIZATION ANALYSIS OF EVOLUTION IN THE GENUS NEUROSPORA : THE STATUS OF FOUR‐SPORED STRAINS

1987 • 43 citations

The red algal-higher fungi phylogenetic link: The last ten years

1985 • 42 citations

Higher-primate phylogeny--why can't we decide?

1988 • 42 citations

Heterogeneity of 5 S RNA in Fungal Ribosomes

1985 • 40 citations

A Comparison of Branching Diagrams Derived by Various Phenetic and Cladistic Methods

1980 • 38 citations

Subrepeat structure of the intergenic region in the ribosomal DNA of the oomycetous fungus Pythium ultimum

1990 • 36 citations

Relatedness of three species of Agaricus inferred from restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of the ribosomal DNA repeat and mitochondrial DNA

1989 • 36 citations

Extensive genetic divergence associated with speciation in filamentous fungi

1987 • 35 citations

Comparison of Physical Maps of Ribosomal DNA Repeating Units in Pythium, Phytophthora and Apodachlya

1987 • 33 citations

Maternal inheritance of mitochondrial DNA in sexual crosses of Pythium sylvaticumm

1989 • 33 citations

Current ReviewMitochondrial Plasmids of Filamentous Fungi: Characteristics and Use in Transformation Vectors

1989 • 32 citations

Uniformity of mitochondrial DNA complexity in Oomycetes and the evolution of the inverted repeat

1988 • 31 citations

RNA editing: the creation of nucleotide sequences in mRNA — a minireview

1989 • 31 citations

ACCURACY OF PHYLOGENETIC‐ESTIMATION METHODS UNDER UNEQUAL EVOLUTIONARY RATES

1988 • 29 citations

Inversion of 5S ribosomal RNA genes within the genus Coprinus

1987 • 27 citations

Systematic Position of Septobasidium, Graphiola and other Basidiomycetes as Deduced on the Basis of their 5S Ribosomal RNA Nucleotide Sequences

1986 • 27 citations

DNA specimens and the International code of botanical nomenclature'

1991 • 26 citations

Significance of the coenzyme Q system in the classification of yeasts and yeast-like organisms. Part XXXIII. The phylogenetic relationship of the conidium-forming anamorphic yeast genera Sterigmatomyces, Kurtzmanomyces, Tsuchiyaea and Fellomyces, and the teleomorphic yeast genus Sterigmatosporidium on the basis of the partial sequences of 18S and 26S ribosomal ribonucleic acids.

1989 • 24 citations

Evolutionary relationships between fungi, red algae, and other simple eucaryotes inferred from total DNA hybridizations to a cloned basidiomycete ribosomal DNA

1986 • 24 citations

Article 59: reinterpretation or revision?

1992 • 23 citations

DNA Homologies Among Heterothallic Species ofNeurospora

1976 • 18 citations

Genic rearrangements in Phytophthora mitochondrial DNA

1990 • 13 citations

Estimation of phylogenetic distances among ascomycetous yeasts from partial sequencing of ribosomal RNA.

1989 • 13 citations

Polymorphism of the mitochondrial L-RNA gene of the basidiomycete Coprinus cinereus

1989 • 10 citations

Nucleotide base sequence of the mitochondrial COIII gene of Schizophyllum commune

1988 • 9 citations

Genetic studies in the genusBasidiobolus

1990 • 6 citations

Microheterogeneity in Aspergillus nidulans 5S rRNA genes

1987 • 5 citations