Hello, my name is Jonathan Dixon and I am a final year student at the University of Manchester, UK. For my final year project in 2001 I have designed a website based on Fungal Evolution. It is primarily aimed at undergraduates in biological sciences, but anyone with a keen interest in fungi may find it useful and appealing. I have decided to split the topic of fungal evolution into three main headings, however there is no order or dominance to any one grouping. They are:

Kingdom Fungi: This section briefly describes whereabouts fungi lies in the six kingdoms of life. It includes descriptions of all kingdoms, emphasizing, of course, on the broad definition of fungi.

Diversification: The kingdom fungi is split into 4 main phyla. This section includes knowledge regarding these phyla, as well as information on those organisms that have one time or another been confused with fungi.

Fungi Origin: Under this heading you will find information regarding the actual times of fungi divergence and the methods involved to find out such evolutionary dates.

There are also bibliography and links pages.

I have tried to keep the website relatively simple and straight forward. However, if you get 'lost' along your way, just click on the Home button at the bottom of the page to bring you back to this page. If you get stuck with any of the words in this website, I have put some of the more difficult ones in the Glossary, so again just click on it if you find yourself stuck.