Re-assessment of the taxonomy of Antarctic mushrooms from King George Island, Antarctica
Ji Seon Kim, Jiyun Choi, Min-Soo Choi, Kyung Mo Kim, Jae Eun So, Youngsung Joo, Jaime R. Cabrera-Pardo, Young Woon Lim · 2026
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Description
Ji Seon Kim and co-authors redo the family tree of mushrooms found on King George Island in Antarctica. Their 2026 study works on fifty specimens from ice-free, plant-covered ground on the warming island. Shape study, gene trees from many loci, species boundary tests, and chemical scans all feed the review.
Four species stand confirmed, and several old naming tangles are cleared. One species gets its first gene tree here. For another group, the true count proves lower than recent reports claimed. A toxin scan ties a disputed name to a known poison maker, merging the two. Time estimates place the island lineages before the current warming, shaped by past ice cycles.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ji Seon Kim, Jiyun Choi, Min-Soo Choi, Kyung Mo Kim, Jae Eun So, Youngsung Joo, Jaime R. Cabrera-Pardo, Young Woon Lim |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 56 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |