The Amsterdam Declaration on fungal nomenclature

ABSTRACT: The Amsterdam Declaration on Fungal Nomenclature was agreed at an international symposium convened in Amsterdam on 19–20 April 2011 under the auspices of the International Commission on the Taxonomy of Fungi (ICTF). The purpose of the symposium was to address the issue of whether or how th...

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Autores:: Vasco Palacios, Aída Marcela
Hawksworth, David L.
Crous, Pedro W.
Redhead, Scott A.
Reynolds, Don R.
Samson, Robert A.
Seifert, Keith A.
Taylor, John W.
Wingfield, Michael J.
Abaci, Özlem
Aime, Catherine
Asan, Ahmet
Bai, Feng-Yan
de Beer, Z. Wilhelm
Begerow, Dominik
Berikten, Derya
Boekhout, Teun
Buchanan, Peter K.
Burgess, Treena
Buzina, Walter
Cai, Lei
Cannon, Paul F.
Crane, J. Leland
Damm, Ulrike
Daniel, Heide Marie
van Diepeningen, Anne D.
Druzhinina, Irina
Dyer, Paul S.
Eberhardt, Ursula
Fell, Jack W.
Frisvad, Jens C.
Geiser, David M.
Geml, József
Glienke, Chirlei
Gräfenhan, Tom
Groenewald, Johannes Z.
Groenewald, Marizeth
de Gruyter, Johannes
Guého-Kellermann, Eveline
Guo, Liang-Dong
Hibbett, David S.
Hong, Seung-Beom
de Hoog, G. Sybren
Houbraken, Jos
Huhndorf, Sabine M.
Hyde, Kevin D.
Ismail, Ahmed
Johnston, Peter R.
Kadaifciler, Duygu G.
Kirk, Paul M.
Kõljalg, Urmas
Kurtzman, Cletus P.
Lagneau, Paul-Emile
Lévesque, C. André
Liu, Xingzhong
Lombard, Lorenzo
Meyer, Wieland
Miller, Andrew
Minter, David W.
Najafzadeh, Mohammad Javad
Norvell, Lorelei
Ozerskaya, Svetlana M.
Öziç, Rasime
Pennycook, Shaun R.
Peterson, Stephen W.
Pettersson, Olga V.
Quaedvlieg, William
Robert, Vincent A.
Ruibal, Constantino
Schnürer, Johan
Schroers, Hans-Josef
Shivas, Roger
Slippers, Bernard
Spierenburg, Henk
Takashima, Masako
Taşkın, Evrim
Thines, Marco
Thrane, Ulf
Uztan, Alev Haliki
van Raak, Marcel
Varga, János
Verkley, Gerard
. Videira, Sandra I.R
de Vries, Ronald P.
Weir, Bevan S.
Yilmaz, Neriman
Yurkov, Andrey
Zhang, Ning

Tipo de recurso:: Article of investigation

Fecha de publicación:: 2011

Institución:: Universidad de Antioquia

Repositorio:: Repositorio UdeA

Idioma:: eng

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Summary:	ABSTRACT: The Amsterdam Declaration on Fungal Nomenclature was agreed at an international symposium convened in Amsterdam on 19–20 April 2011 under the auspices of the International Commission on the Taxonomy of Fungi (ICTF). The purpose of the symposium was to address the issue of whether or how the current system of naming pleomorphic fungi should be maintained or changed now that molecular data are routinely available. The issue is urgent as mycologists currently follow different practices, and no consensus was achieved by a Special Committee appointed in 2005 by the International Botanical Congress to advise on the problem. The Declaration recognizes the need for an orderly transitition to a single-name nomenclatural system for all fungi, and to provide mechanisms to protect names that otherwise then become endangered. That is, meaning that priority should be given to the first described name, except where that is a younger name in general use when the first author to select a name of a pleomorphic monophyletic genus is to be followed, and suggests controversial cases are referred to a body, such as the ICTF, which will report to the Committee for Fungi. If appropriate, the ICTF could be mandated to promote the implementation of the Declaration. In addition, but not forming part of the Declaration, are reports of discussions held during the symposium on the governance of the nomenclature of fungi, and the naming of fungi known only from an environmental nucleic acid sequence in particular. Possible amendments to the Draft BioCode (2011) to allow for the needs of mycologists are suggested for further consideration, and a possible example of how a fungus only known from the environment might be described is presented.

The Amsterdam Declaration on fungal nomenclature

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