DNA samples from fungi collections provide key to mushroom 'tree of life'

Friday, May 22, 2015 - 13:30 in Biology & Nature

Genetic material from fungi collections at Purdue University and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, helped a team of researchers resolve the mushroom "tree of life," a map of the relationships between key mushroom species and their evolutionary history that scientists have struggled to piece together for more than 200 years.

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