title: New bottles for old wine: fruit body types, phylogeny, and classification.
abstract: Molecular phylogenetic studies have made it evident that similar fruit body types, formerly the cornerstone of the classification of ascomycete and basidiomycete fungi, including those that form lichens, are often a result of convergent evolution. This commentary provides an introduction to this special issue of Mycological Research, which is based on papers presented at a one-day joint meeting of the British Mycological Society and the Natural History Museum held in London on 3 December 2005. The nine papers included address this issue in relation to its impact on classification, and also draw attention to the over-emphasis in fungal classification of ascus types and, in the case of lichen fungi, thallus form.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Biología Vegetal II, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Plaza Ramón y Cajal, Ciudad Universitaria, ES-28040 Madrid, Spain. d.hawksworth@nhm.ac.uk
authors.forename: David L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Hawksworth
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lagreca
mesh_terms: D001203:Ascomycota / Q000145:classification* / Q000166:cytology*; D001487:Basidiomycota / Q000145:classification* / Q000166:cytology*; D048690:Fruiting Bodies, Fungal / Q000166:cytology*; D008011:Lichens / Q000145:classification / Q000166:cytology; D010802:Phylogeny