Talk:Rozella

New Phylum, or possibily even Kingdom!

There is a recent discovery of a new Phylum of fungus, a phylum that is so different from all other fungi that some are calling it a new Kingdom See our new article on Cryptomycota. However, there is (understandably) a naming dispute on this article, because the science is so new.

One person suggests that the name Rozellida has been previously given to this clade. I, however, disagree. The following article says this:

"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

Let's look for more sources, and discuss this issue further. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.252.16.225 (talk) 15:47, 12 May 2011 (UTC)