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All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential competing interests include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Authors must disclose any interests in two places: 1. A summary declaration on Conflict of interest statement in the title page file (if double-blind) or the manuscript file (if single-blind). If there are no conflict of interests to declare then please state this: 'The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest'. This summary statement will be ultimately published if the article is accepted.

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Changes to authorship

Authors are expected to consider carefully the list and order of authors before submitting their manuscript and provide the definitive list of authors at the time of the original submission. Any addition, deletion or rearrangement of author names in the authorship list should be made only before the manuscript has been accepted and only if approved by the journal Editor. To request such a change, the Editor must receive the following from the corresponding author: (a) the reason for the change in author list and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement. In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author being added or removed. Authors are requested to check that their affiliations are correctly cited before submitting the manuscript.

Only in exceptional circumstances will the Editor consider the addition, deletion or rearrangement of authors after the manuscript has been accepted. While the Editor considers the request, publication of the manuscript will be suspended. If the manuscript has already been published in an online issue, any requests approved by the Editor will result in a corrigendum.

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PREPARATION

To submit a manuscript please adhere to the following:

• Manuscript body text should be processed in Microsoft Word; and illustrations (tif or psd with layers included) using the provided template file. Note: See below for further instructions regarding illustrations. Tables should be provided as Microsoft Excel files; if multiple tables are combined into one Excel workbook, the tabs should be labeled with the appropriate table number, e.g. “Table 1”, “Table 2”, etc. Missing data in tables should be indicated with an emdash for missing, or n/d (not determined) or n/a (not available), depending on the type of missing data.
• A cover letter which clearly states the name and address of the person with whom the Editor-in-Chief should correspond, and which confirms that: (a) all named authors have agreed to publication of the work; and (b) the manuscript does not infringe any personal or other copyright or property rights. The Declaration on Conflict of Interest should also be stated.
• If the manuscript references papers which are "in press", copies should be included for the benefit of the referees.
• The content should be set out as follows: Abstract, Introduction, Materials and methods, Results and/or Taxonomy, Discussion, Acknowledgements, Conflict of Interest, and References. Key words (listed alphabetically) and a Running Head should also be provided.
• British-English is used for all non-article material. Words of non-English origin, like bona fide, fide, ibid., in vitro, in situ, prima facie, sensu, sensu lato (stricto), should not be placed in italics, while plant and fungal scientific names of any rank (e.g. Ascomycota, Dothideales, Mycosphaerellaceae, Mycosphaerella nubilosa, Clonostachys rosea catenulata) are placed in italics. Exceptions that should be written in italics are: comb. nov., et al., fam. nov., formae, formae speciales, ord. nov. and sp. nov. The use of either "Culture characteristics" or "Cultural characteristics” is allowed, but the style must be consistent within a single paper.
• Common abbreviations are as follows: h, min, s, μm, mL, L, mg/L, °C, Fig., Figs, d, wk, mo, but also ITS, RPD, RFLP, rDNA, 18S, etc. Do not add a full stop at the end of abbreviated word if the last letter of the abbreviation is the same as the last letter of the full word (vs, Figs). Subspecies and formae speciales should be abbreviated as subsp. and sp. respectively. It is not allowed to start a sentence with an abbreviation; any word should always be written out in full when used at the start of a sentence. When a number is used in text as an adjective, thousands should not be separated by spaces, e.g. 1000 plants, and millions indicated with a capital M, e.g. 10 M generations. Similarly, if a number is less than 10 it should be written out, e.g. five plants versus 10 animals. Citation of nomenclatural authorities for taxa should follow the list of authors' names, see http://www.indexfungorum.org/authorsoffungalnames.htm. Journal abbreviations in the text (species synonymies, descriptions, etc.) should follow B-P-H and B-P-H/S (Botanico-Periodicum-Huntianum/Supplementum).
• Experimental procedures must be reproducible and must follow Good Cultural Practice (Mycological Research 106: 1378–1379), with sequences lodged at one of the partners of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (i.e. the DNA DataBank of Japan (DDBJ), the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), or GenBank at NCBI). These sequence accession numbers must be mentioned in a Table (linked to published papers from which they were retrieved), along with material/cultures examined. Alignments and phylogenetic trees should be deposited in TreeBASE or other public repositories such as Figshareor Zenodo and the submission/doi number be cited in the manuscript; voucher specimens in a recognized fungarium (Index Herbariorum or World Directory of Collections and Cultures of Microorganisms acronym; accompanying ex-type and other cultures in CBS and other culture collections. Taxonomic novelties (MB number) and typification events (MBT number) should be deposited in MycoBank after acceptance of the paper (see www.mycobank.org.).
• Collections must be cited as: Material(s) examined: Country, location, substratum, date (e.g. 10 Jul. 1993), collector (e.g. Dylan & L. Cohen), personal number (FUNGARIUM acronym according to Index Herbariorum xxx, culture CBS xxx = ATCC xxx). (thus only country in bold face; all calendar months to be abbreviated to the first three letters followed by a full stop, except for May). “Material(s) examined” is preferred to “Specimen(s) examined”, but either is accepted as long as the style is consistent within a single publication.
• Details of type materials should appear separate from Material(s) examined as follows under the heading Typus: Material(s) examined: Country, location, substratum, date (e.g. 10 Jul. 1993), collector (e.g. Dylan & L. Cohen), personal number (holotype FUNGARIUM (acronym according to Index Herbariorum) xxx, culture ex-type CBS xxx= ATCC xxx). (thus only country and type indications in bold face; all calendar months to be abbreviated to the first three letters followed by a full stop, except for May).
• It is requested that authors deposit the principal cultures discussed in their paper at the CBS Microbial Biological Resource Centre, which is housed at the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
• Reference citation in text: References in the text should be chronological, and given in the following form: "Smith & Jones (1965) have shown ...", or, "some authors (Zabetta 1928, Taylor & Palmer 1970, Zabetta 1970, De Hoog & Gerrits van den Ende 1998) consider that ...". The names of collaborating authors are joined by an ampersand (&). Where there are three or more authors, names should be cited by the first name only, adding "et al.", e.g. "Bowie, Black & White (1964)" are given as "Bowie et al. (1964)" or "(Bowie et al. 1964)". Where authors have published more than one work in a year, to which reference is made, they should be distinguished by placing a, b, etc. immediately after the date, based on their alphabetical order in the reference list, e.g. "Dylan (1965a, b)". Reference citations in text should be in ascending order of year first, followed by authors' names. In the References section, citations should be strictly alphabetical, with papers having the same authors arranged according to date. Each reference should include the full title of the paper and unabbreviated journal name, volume number, and the final as well as the first page number. In the case of chapters in books, the names of editors, first and last page numbers of the articles, publisher and place of publication are needed. References with more than three authors, should list the first three authors, followed by "et al."; for references with four authors, all four authors are listed, without using et al.

Examples for publications, books and dissertations (note that the en-dash symbol is used for ranges; plant and fungal scientific names of any rank mentioned in the book title remains in italics, e.g. Banksia, Grevillea and the other Proteaceae of Western Australia):

• Authors are requested to include links to online sources of articles, whenever possible.
• Journal name in italics, volume number in bold, en-dash to indicate range and insert a space after the volume number with colon. Journals abbreviated according to Hunt (BPH).
• Only book titles in italics (use a simple colon before the page number), all other information in Roman letters.
• Black JA, Taylor JE (1999a). Article title. Studies in Mycology 13: 1−10.
• Black JA, Taylor JE (1999b). Article title. Mycological Research: In press.
• Black JA, Taylor JE, White DA (1981). Chapter title. In: Book title (Seifert S, Seifert KA, eds). Press, Country: 11−30.
• Crous PW, Wingfield MJ, Mansilla JP, et al. (2006c). Phylogenetic reassessment of Mycosphaerella spp. and their anamorphs occurring on Eucalyptus. II. Studies in Mycology 55: 99−131. https://doi.org/10.3114/sim.55.1.99
• De Hoog GS, Gerrits van den Ende AHG (1998). Molecular diagnostics of clinical strains of filamentous Basidiomycetes. Mycoses 41: 183–189. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0507.1998.tb00321.x
• Simpson H, Seifert KA (2000). Book title. 2nd edn. Press, Country.
• Videira SIR (2018). Mycosphaerellaceae revisited. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, Netherlands. https://edepot.wur.nl/457603

Examples for software, online databases, and online articles:

• EPPO home page (2015). About the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO). <www.eppo.int/ABOUT_EPPO/about_eppo.htm>.
• Farr DF, Rossman AY, Palm ME, et al. (2008). Fungal databases, systematic mycology and microbiology laboratory, ARS, USDA. <www.nt.ars-grin.gov/fungaldatabases/>. Accessed on 18 December 2018.
• Oksanen J, Blanchet FG, Kindt R, et al. (2013). Vegan: community ecology package. R package version 2.0-7. <vegan.r-forge.r-project.org/>.
• Revkin AC (2014). Can Congress Act to Block Fungal Threat to U.S. Amphibians? The New York Times. 31 October 2014. <dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/31/can-congress-act-to-block-fungal-threat-to-u-s-amphibians/?_r=0

Instruction for the illustrations

• Illustrations: Illustrations must be submitted in digital form. Line drawings and half tone pictures should be submitted as tif or psd files, never as MS Powerpoint or Adobe PDF files. Phylogenetic trees can be submitted as MS Powerpoint or Adobe Illustrator files, and NOT as MS Word files, images or images pasted into MS Powerpoint slides. Fonts in phylogenetic trees are restricted to Arial, Times or Times New Roman (preference for Arial), with the minimum font size 8 or 10 points. Lines should be at least 1 point thick, and the tree must fit A4 format (multi-page trees allowed, but trees should then be divided across multiple pages with arrows linking the parts. Very long branches can be shortened but the factor used for shortening should then be indicated on that branch, e.g. 2× for the branch which was halved). Half tones at 300 dpi or higher, and line drawings at 600 dpi or higher.
• Provide each figure as a separate file, e.g. each part of a multi-page phylogenetic tree as a new file (e.g. Fig1part1, Fig1part2). Do not combine multiple artboards representing different figures in one Adobe Illustrator file but rather supply each as a separate Illustrator file.
• Fonts and lines on photoplates:
• size of complete plate: 18 cm wide and max. 26.2 cm high; resolution 300 or higher dpi (300 dpi alone is sufficient for a plate of 18 x 26.2 cm)
• separate pictures should be in RGB with a resolution of at least 300 dpi;
• scale bars: place = bottom right hand side corner; thickness; 6 pixels, 2 mm up and 2 mm to the left of the corner;
• letters: place = bottom left hand side corner; 2 mm up and 2 mm to the right of the corner;
• font = Arial regular capital, size 12 pixels. 
• thickness of white lines separating the pictures: 15 pixels
• Please submit the photoplate as a psd file with unflattened layers (never as an Adobe PDF file)
• Fonts for labelling drawings: Arial regular capital

Authors should upload their research data to MycoBank after the paper has been accepted, and include relevant MycoBank accession numbers in their manuscripts, e.g. MycoBank: MB 476123.

Supplementary material

• All supplementary materials must be submitted at the same time as the main article, to be included in the peer-review process. Files should be labelled in such a way that it is clear that they are supplemental to the main article.
• Supplementary materials are not included in the layout process but are published in the format they were provided by the authors. The publishers reserve the right to comment on or request updated versions of the supplementary materials if these are considered unacceptable for inclusion.
• Supplementary material can be deposited with third-party repositories such as TreeBASE, Figshare, Zenodo, etc (e.g. sequence alignments and individual gene trees) in which case legends should be included at that repository, or as a supplementary zip file containing all supplementary files to be published on the Ingenta/journal website, in which case legends should be supplied after the Reference list using the following format:

Supplementary Material: https://fuse-journal.org/

Fig. S1. Phylogenetic placement of the Daedalea – Fomitopsis clade (box) within Polyporales based on Maximum Likelihood of the ITS + LSU + SSU + mtSSU + RPB1 + RPB2 + TEF1 dataset. Numbers on nodes represent bootstrap values > 70 % and Bayesian Inference posterior probabilities > 0.85. The scale bar indicates the number of expected substitutions per site. Two-letter codes in the parentheses denote the country of origin.

Fig. S2. Phylogenetic relationships of species in the Daedalea – Fomitopsis clade based on Maximum Likelihood of the ITS + LSU dataset. Numbers on nodes represent bootstrap values > 70 % and Bayesian Inference posterior probabilities > 0.85. The species represented with ITS only are marked with an asterisk (*). The scale bar indicates the number of expected substitutions per site. Two-letter codes in the parentheses denote the country of origin.

Table S1. List of reference species used for comparisons in this study and their accession numbers.

Table S2. Phylogenetic statistics for the different analyses performed in this study.

PREPARING THE MANUSCRIPT

• Italicize Latin names of plant and fungal names (see detailed instructions above).
• Avoid hyphenation throughout the manuscript (disable automatic hyphenation).
• Page numbering should be top right corner of each page.
• Phylogenetic trees: Authors must submit their alignment files in FASTA format at the time of submission.
• Legends to supplementary material which will be deposited at Ingenta/journal website as part of the manuscript should be provided at the back of the manuscript, directly after the References section. It is not necessary to provide legends for supplementary material provided at other repositories such as TreeBASE, Figshare, Zenodo, etc. Supplementary files should be included as separate files in your submission.
• Table should be submitted as separate Microsoft Excel files; figures as separate files with appropriate extensions (see detailed instructions above) and legends to the figures and tables should be placed at the end of the main manuscript text.
• Keep the file names simple, e.g. Table1, Table2, Fig1.jpg, Fig2.psd, Fig3part1.pdf, Fig3part2.pdf, FigS1, TableS1, etc.

Note:

• Page margins must be 2.03 cm each side.
• Page size must be A4.
• Single spacing.
• Automatic hyphenation switched off.