@article {4204,
	title = {Disintegration of the Micareaceae (lichenized Ascomycota): a molecular phylogeny based on mitochondrial rDNA sequences.},
	journal = {Mycological Research},
	volume = {109},
	year = {2005},
	pages = {21-30},
	abstract = {<p>The phylogeny of the family Micareaceae and the genus Micarea was studied using mitochondrial small subunit ribosomal DNA sequences. Phylogenetic reconstructions were performed using Bayesian MCMC tree sampling and a maximum likelihood approach. The Micareaceae in its current sense is highly heterogeneous, and Helocarpon, Psilolechia, and Scutula, all thought to be close relatives of Micarea, are shown to be only distantly related. The genus Micarea is paraphyletic unless the entire Pilocarpaceae and Ectolechiaceae are included, as also indicated by an expected likelihood weights test. It is suggested that the Micareaceae is reduced to synonymy with the Pilocarpaceae, which also includes the Ectolechiaceae, and that Micarea may have to be divided into a series of smaller genera in the future. Micarea species with a \&$\#$39;non-micareoid\&$\#$39; photobiont group with Psora and the Ramalinaceae, whereas Micarea intrusa appears to belong in Scoliciosporum. Three species fall inside the paraphyletic Micarea: Szczawinskia tsugae, Catillaria contristans, and Fellhaneropsis vezdae. Tropical foliicolous taxa are nested within groups of mainly temperate and arctic-alpine distribution. A \&$\#$39;micareoid\&$\#$39; photobiont appears to be plesiomorphic in the Pilocarpaceae but has been lost a few times.</p>
},
	keywords = {Ascomycota, DNA, Fungal, DNA, Mitochondrial, DNA, Ribosomal, Evolution, Molecular, Lichens, Phylogeny, Sequence Analysis, DNA},
	issn = {0953-7562},
	url = {http://www.reelab.net/phylografter/study/download/study_file.file.aff47904dbea7823.3737355f7064662e706466.pdf},
	author = {Andersen, H.L. and Ekman, S.}
}
@article {4188,
	title = {A phylogenetic overview of the family Pyronemataceae (Ascomycota, Pezizales)},
	journal = {Mycological Research},
	volume = {111},
	year = {2007},
	pages = {549-571},
	abstract = {<p>Partial sequences of nuLSU rDNA were obtained to investigate the phylogenetic relationships of Pyronemataceae, the largest and least studied family of Pezizales. The dataset includes sequences for 162 species from 51 genera of Pyronemataceae, and 39 species from an additional 13 families of Pezizales. Parsimony, ML, and Bayesian analyses suggest that Pyronemataceae is not monophyletic as it is currently circumscribed. Ascodesmidaceae is nested within Pyronemataceae, and several pyronemataceous taxa are resolved outside the family. Glaziellaceae forms the sister group to Pyronemataceae in ML analyses, but this relationship, as well as those of Pyronemataceae to the other members of the lineage, are not resolved with support. Fourteen clades of pyronemataceous taxa are well supported and/or present in all recovered trees. Several pyronemataceous genera are suggested to be non-monophyletic, including Anthracobia, Cheilymenia, Geopyxis, Humaria, Lasiobolidium, Neottiella, Octospora, Pulvinula, Stephensia, Tricharina, and Trichophaea. Cleistothecial and truffle or truffle-like ascomata forms appear to have evolved independently multiple times within Pyronemataceae. Results of these analyses do not support previous classifications of Pyronemataceae, and suggest that morphological characters traditionally used to segregate the family into subfamilial groups are not phylogenetically informative above the genus level.</p>
},
	keywords = {Ascomycota, DNA, Fungal, DNA, Ribosomal, Evolution, Molecular, Genes, Fungal, Phenotype, Phylogeny, Sequence Alignment},
	issn = {0953-7562},
	doi = {10.1016/j.mycres.2007.03.014},
	author = {Perry, B.A. and Hansen, K. and Pfister, D.H.}
}
