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As part of the AFTOL project, mycologists from around
the world have been preparing lists of exemplar taxa for inclusion
in a kingdom wide phylogenetic study of the Fungi. The lists represent
taxa that will be included in multigene analyses as well as candidates
for the study of non-nucleotide characters that will focus on subcellular
and biochemincal traits. These lists should be viewed as amendable
documents that are subject to change as the AFTOL project matures
and new taxa are discovered. Anyone is invited to participate in
development of the lists and in providing specimens for study. Multiple
taxa may be proposed for any one taxon (e.g., multiple species within
a genus, or multiple genera within a family) and more than one person
may offer to provide identical or similiar species. This latter
point is important as often a particular specimen or species may
present problems in sampling and a second closely related alternative
must be examined. All data that are generated as part of the AFTOL
will be immediately returned to the laboratory that provided the
species in question, as well as immediately released to an web accessible
AFTOL database. Please see the AFTOL proposal and management plan
for additional details on policies regarding data release and authorship.
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