title: Using heterozygosity to estimate a percentage DNA sequence similarity for environmental species' delimitation across basidiomycete fungi.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.
authors.forename: Karen W
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Hughes
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.
authors.forename: Ronald H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Petersen
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, Virginia 22812, USA.
authors.forename: Edgar B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Lickey
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D001487:Basidiomycota / Q000235:genetics*; D044822:Biodiversity; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000235:genetics*; D021901:DNA, Intergenic / Q000235:genetics; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D004783:Environmental Microbiology; D048690:Fruiting Bodies, Fungal / Q000235:genetics; D014644:Genetic Variation; D006579:Heterozygote; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D004271:DNA, Fungal; D021901:DNA, Intergenic