H. Lumbsch

Divergence Time Determines the Performance of the Fungal Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) DNA Barcode in the Lichen-Forming Ascomycete Genus Parmelina

Molecular studies have repeatedly demonstrated that morphology-based species circumscriptions often underestimate the diversity of lichenized fungi by masking distinct evolutionary lineages under a single species name. In Parmelina, a lichen-forming ascomycete genus whose extant diversity originated during the Miocene...