Fungi evolved right on track

@article{Lcking2009FungiER,  title={Fungi evolved right on track},  author={Robert L{\"u}cking and Sabine M. Huhndorf and Donald H. Pfister and Eimy Rivas Plata and H. Thorsten Lumbsch},  journal={Mycologia},  year={2009},  volume={101},  pages={810 - 822},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:6689439}}
The origin of fungi was re-estimated at between 760 million and 1.06 billion y ago and the origin of the Ascomycota at 500–650 million y ago, much more consistent than previous estimates and much better in line with the fossil record of fungi and plants and the ecological interdependence between filamentous fungi and land plants.

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