Tuberaceae

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Tuberaceae

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Subphylum: Pezizomycotina
Class: Pezizomycetes
Order: Pezizales
Family: Tuberaceae
Genera

Choiromyces
Dingleya
Labyrinthomyces
Paradoxa
Reddelomyces
Tuber

Tuberaceae is a family of mycorrhizal fungi. It includes the genus Tuber, which includes the so-called "true" Truffles. It was characterized by Mortier in 1822. A molecular study of ribosomal DNA by mycologist Kerry O'Donell in 1997 found that a small clade now redefined as Helvellaceae is most closely related to the Tuberaceae.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ O'Donnell, Kerry; Elizabeth Cigelnik, Nancy S. Weber and James M. Trappe (1997). "Phylogenetic relationships among ascomycetous truffles and the true and false morels inferred from 18S and 28S ribosomal DNA sequence analysis". Mycologia 89 (1): 48-65. doi:10.2307/3761172. 
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