Danny's DNA Discoveries
by Danny Miller, education@psms.org
(version 0.1.000)

This project will attempt to document all of the mushrooms species that occur in the Pacific Northwest based on DNA analysis funded by PSMS member Yi-Min Wang, the PSMS board and other entities fully acknowledged below. I define the PNW as Washington, Oregon, Idaho and southern British Columbia, although MycoMatch includes species only found in northern BC as well.

DOWNLOAD ALL MY FASTA DNA DATA AND MY TREES HERE

The above link has all of my data, but it may be hard to find what you are looking for. Typically, you will find one FASTA file per genus, but for large genera you may find one file per subgenus and for small genera, you might find one file per several genera, family, order or class. Every file is also available individually on the various pages linked from my big tree below. While this is a work in progress, I can't predict which version will be more up to date. Email me for the most up-to-date data, especially for genera whose links don't work yet.

Other free resources: How to help out with this project:
  • · Collect and identify a mushroom found in the PNW.
  • · Search this page for the most recent genus name, and click on it for details. If that genus is not clickable yet, email me (this is a work in progress).
  • · Find your species on that page and it will tell you if collections of that species are still needed for sequencing.
  • · Dry it in a food dehydrator for 24 hours, contact me, and I will get the mushroom from you, sequence it, and let you know the results.
  • · If you have a mushroom sequence, you can download all my sequences for that genus to compare with to see what species you might have or if it is something I don't have a sequence of yet and would appreciate seeing. Most internet sequences are incorrectly identified, so you may need a reliable database like this one to compare against.

If you have any information to add, or corrections to make, please contact me above!

The arrangement of the tree that follows is still somewhat speculative, but based in part on the latest multi-gene studies, starting with this great site which shows what we know from the relatively few species that have had their entire genome sequenced. Otherwise, I try to go by the study that uses the most genes. The tree reads from basal to crown, top to bottom.

Eventually, there will be a report for every genus. Links that have been written so far and can be clicked on begin with a • and are underlined.
You can expand and contract branches of the tree by clicking on an entry with an arrow. Some interesting features that clades have evolved are noted in bold, like spore colour.