Mycoportal: Taxonomic Thesaurus Scott Thomas Bates, PhD Purdue University North Central Campus Eukaryota, Opisthokonta, Fungi chitinous cell wall absorptive nutrition apical growth-hyphae Eukaryota, Opisthokonta, Fungi Macrobe chitinous cell wall absorptive nutrition apical growth-hyphae Eukaryota, Opisthokonta, Fungi Macrobe Microbe chitinous cell wall absorptive nutrition apical growth-hyphae Primary decomposers in terrestrial systems Essential symbiotic partners of plants and animals Penicillium chrysogenum Saccharomyces cerevisiae Geomyces destructans Magnaporthe oryzae Pseudogymnoascus destructans “In 2013, an analysis of the phylogenetic relationship indicated that this fungus was more closely related to the genus Pseudogymnoascus than to the genus Geomyces changing its latin binomial to Pseudogymnoascus destructans.” Magnaporthe oryzae Pseudogymnoascus destructans Magnaporthe oryzae Pseudogymnoascus destructans Magnaporthe oryzae “The International Botanical Congress in Melbourne in July 2011 made a change in the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants and adopted the principle "one fungus, one name.” Pseudogymnoascus destructans Magnaporthe oryzae Pseudogymnoascus destructans Pyricularia oryzae Pseudogymnoascus destructans Magnaporthe oryzae Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Blehert & Gargas) Minnis & D.L. Lindner Magnaporthe oryzae B.C. Couch Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Blehert & Gargas) Minnis & D.L. Lindner Fungi, Ascomycota, Ascomycetes, Myxotrichaceae, Pseudogymnoascus Magnaporthe oryzae B.C. Couch Fungi, Ascomycota, Pezizomycotina, Sordariomycetes, Sordariomycetidae, Magnaporthaceae, Magnaporthe Symbiota Taxonomic Thesaurus Pyricularia oryzae How can we keep taxonomic information up-to-date in the portal? Application Programming Interface (API) MiCC Team New Taxa/Updates Other workers Mycobank DB Page Views Mycoportal DB Mycobank API Monitoring for changes regular expression: /.*aceae THANKS!.