Foreword ....................................................... ix
Preface ........................................................ xi
Addresses of Authors and Contributors ........................ xiii
Introduction .................................................... 1
Gregory M. Mueller and Gerald F. Bills
PART I
General Issues
1 Fungi and Their Allies ....................................... 7
Meredith Blackwell and Joseph W. Spatafora
2 Preparation, Preservation, and Use of Fungal Specimens in
Herbaria .................................................... 23
Qiuxin (Florence) Wu, Barbara M. Thiers, and Donald
H. Pfister
3 Preservation and Distribution of Fungal Cultures ............ 37
Karen K. Nakasone, Stephen W. Peterson, and Shung-Chang
Jong
4 Electronic Information Resources ............................ 49
David F. Farr and Ellen R. Farr
5 Fungal Biodiversity Patterns ................................ 59
John C. Zak and Michael R. Willig
6 Molecular Methods for Discriminating Taxa, Monitoring
Species, and Assessing Fungal diversity ..................... 77
Russell J. Rodriguez, Daniel Cullen, Cletus P. Kurtzman,
George G. Khachatourians, and Dwayne D. Hegedus
PART IIA
Recommended Protocols for Sampling Particular Groups of
Fungi: Direct Collecting and Isolation Protocols for
Macrofungi and Microfungi on Soil, Wood, Leaves, Lichens,
and Other Substrata
7 Fungi on Living Plant Substrata, Including Fruits .......... 105
Brenda E. Callan and Lori M. Carris
8 Terrestrial and Lignicolous Macrofungi ..................... 127
D. Jean Fodge, Joseph F. Ammirati, Thomas E. O'Dell,
Gregory M. Mueller, Sabine M. Huhndorf, Chun-Juan Wang,
Jogeir N. Stokland, John Paul Schmit, Leif Ryrarden,
Patrick R. Leacock, Milagro Mata, Loengrin Umaña,
Qiu-xin (Florence) Wu, and Daniel L. Czederpiltz
9 Lichenized Fungi ........................................... 173
Susan Will-Wolf, David L. Hawksworth, Bruce McCune, Roger
Rosentreter, and Harrie J.M. Sipman
10 Sequestrate Fungi .......................................... 197
Michael A. Castellano, James M. Trappe, and Daniel
L. Luoma
PART IIB
Recommended Protocols for Sampling Particular Groups of
Fungi: Isolation Protocols for Readily Culturable Microfungi
Associated with Plants
11 Microfungi on Wood and Plant Debris ........................ 217
Paul F. Cannon and Brian C. Sutton
12 Endophytic Fungi ........................................... 241
Jeffrey K. Stone, Jon D. Polishook, and James F. White, Jr.
13 Saprobic Soil Fungi ........................................ 271
Gerald F. Bills, Martha Christensen, Martha Powell, and
Greg Thorn
14 Fungi in Stressful Environments ............................ 303
John C. Zak and Howard G. Wildman
15 mutualistic arbuscular Endomycorrhizal Fungi ............... 317
Joseph B. Morton, Richard E. Koske, Sidney L. Stürmer,
and Stephen P. Bentivenga
16 Yeasts ..................................................... 337
Cletus P. Kurtzman and Jack W. Fell
17 Fungicolous Fungi .......................................... 343
Walter Gams, Paul Diederich, and Kadri Poldmaa
PART IIC
Recommended Protocols for Sampling Particular Groups of
Fungi: Collecting and Isolation Protocols for Fungi
Associated with Animals
18 Insect- and Other Arthropod-Associated Fungi ............... 395
Richard K. Benjamin, Meredith Blackwell, Ignacio
H. Chapela, Richard A. Humber, Kevin G. Jones, Kier
D. Klepzig, Robert W. Lichtwardt, David Malloch, Hiroaki
Noda, Richard A. Roeper, Joseph W. Spatafora, and
Alexander Weir
19 Fungal Parasites and Predators of Rotifers, Nematodes,
and Other Invertebrates .................................... 435
George L. Barron
20 Fungi Associated with Vertebrates
Richard C. Summerbell
21 Coprophilous Fungi ......................................... 467
John С. Krug, Gerald L. Benny, and Harold W. Keller
22 Anaerobic Zoosporic Fungi Associated with Animals .......... 501
Daniel A. Wubah
PART IID
Recommended Protocols for Sampling Particular Groups of
Fungi: Collecting and Isolation Protocols for Aquatic Fungi
and for Protoctistans Formerly Treated as Fungi
23 Fungi in Freshwater Habitats ............................... 513
Carol A. Shearer, Deborah M. Langsam, and Joyce
E. Longcore
24 Marine and Estuarine Mycelial eumycota and oomycota ........ 533
Jan Kohlmeyer, Brigitte Volkmann-Kohlmeyer, and Steven
Y. Newell
25 MYCETOZOANS ................................................ 547
Frederick W. Spiegel, Steven L. Stephenson, Harold
W. Keller, Donna L. Moore, and James С. Cavender
26 Fungi Associated with Aquatic Animals ...................... 451
Thomas G. Rand
PART III
Appendices, Glossary, Literature Cited, and Miscellaneous
APPENDIX I
Moist Chambers for the Development of Fungi ................... 589
John С. Krug
APPENDIX II
Formulae for Selected Materials Used to Isolate and Study
Fungi and Fungal Allies ....................................... 595
Compiled by Gerald F. Bills and Mercedes S. Foster
APPENDIX III
Institutions with Significant Collections of Fungi or Fungal
Allies and Fungus-Related Websites ............................ 619
Compiled by Fiona A. Wilkinson and Mercedes S. Foster
APPENDIX IV
Vendors ....................................................... 627
Glossary ...................................................... 637
Frank M. Dugan
Literature Cited .............................................. 673
Index ......................................................... 763
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