Talk:Rozellida

Rozellida

The name Rozellida has been previously given to this clade; environmental DNA sequences of members of the clade were known by 2009 at the latest. Lavateraguy (talk) 07:25, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree; see this article for why:

"The only previously known fungus that the team found to fall within the new group is the genus Rozella — long thought to be an oddity because of its lack of a chitinous cell wall — which diverged from the rest of the fungi very early on. "We thought that the Rozella branch of fungus was just a twig that had hung on over the course of evolution," says James, "but this paper shows us it's part of a whole evolutionary bush."

Nature News, Published online 11 May 2011 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2011.285

The evolutionary tree of fungi grows a new branch, Marian Turner

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110511/full/news.2011.285.html

Also see the current Wikipedia article Rozella.

But let's look for more sources, and discuss this issue further. RK (talk) 15:51, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Have you looked at the Lara et al paper? That has a cladogram showing a diverse group of organisms, including Rozella, forming a clade forming the sister group to (other) Fungi, with Nucleariida as the next sister group. What the Nature paper (paywalled) is described as presenting is a diverse group of organisms, including Rozella, and a type newly isolated from a Devon pond, forming a clade forming the sister group to (other) Fungi. Those seem to be equivalent definitions. Lavateraguy (talk) 17:00, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It would seem that Cryptomycota over Rozellida has been argued as the accepted term: http://www.imafungus.org/Issue/4/18.pdf- Igniococcus