Paul Dennis Bridge was previously Director of Bioservices at CABI, Head of Evolutionary Biology Group at British Antarctic Survey, and Kew Chair of Mycology at Birkbeck. He has 30 years history in practical microbial systematics in agricultural and environmental programmes. Author of over 150 scientific papers, chapters and reviews and co-editor for 10 books.

• 1: Contributors 2: Foreword, Ulrich Kück 3: Molecular Variability of Fungal Pathogens: Using the Rice Blast Fungus as a Case Study, N J Talbot 4: Molecular Variability in Sexually Reproducing Fungal Plant Pathogens, J M Duncan, D Cooke, P Birch and R Toth 5: Parasexuality in Fungi: Mechanisms and Significance in Wild Populations, A J M Debets 6: Molecular Variability of Viruses of Fungi, K W Buck 7: Activator-like Transposons in Beauveria Species, U Kück, S Jacobsen and F Kempken 8: Fungal Pathogenesis in Insects, J Clarkson, S Screen, A Bailey, B Cobb and K Charnley 9: Combination of Different Independent Molecular Markers to Understand the Genetic Structure of Beauveria Populations, Y Couteaudier, M Viaud and C Neuvéglise 10: Assessing Diversity in Colletotrichum and Trichodera Species Using Molecular Markers, P R Mills, S Sreenivasaprasad and S Muthumeenakshi 11: Variability in the Human Opportunistic Fungal Pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus, J P Latgé, J P Debeaupuis, J Sarfati and S Paris 12: Reproduction and Population Structure in Phytopathogenic Fungi, Y Brygoo, V Caffier, J Carlier, Jean-Vincent Fabre, D Fernandez, T Giraud, X Mourichon, C Neema, Jean-Loup Notteghem, C Pope, D Tharreau and Marc-Henri Lebrun 13: Variation in the Subtilisins of Fungal Pathogens of Insects and Nematodes, T M Butt, R Segers, S C Leal and B R Kerry 14: Metabolites Influencing Pathogenicity of Nematophagous Fungi, L V Lopez-Llorca and C Olivares-Bernabeu 15: Sources of Molecular Variability and Applications in Characterization of the Plant Pathogen Fusarium oxysporum, S L Woo and M Lorito 16: Variability of Human Pathogenic Fungi, D Sullivan and D Coleman 17: Mitochondrial DNA Differences Provide Maximum Intraspecific Polymorphism in the Entomopathogenic Fungi Verticillium lecanii and Metarhizium anisopliae and Allow Isolate Detection/Identification, M A Typas, A Mavridou and V Kouvelis 18: RAPD-PCR for the Molecular Characterization of Beauveria brongniartii Isolates Useful as Biocontrol Agents of the European Cockchafer Melolontha melolontha, O I Ozino, P Piatti and F Cravanzola 19: Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetic Implications of ITS Sequence in Plants and in Fungi, J Mugnier 20: Neural Network Approaches to Interpreting Variability, L Boddy, C W Morris, A Morgan and L Al-Haddad 21: Numerical Analysis of Molecular Variability: A Comparison of Hierarchic and Non-hierarchic Methods, P Bridge 22: Index

Paul Dennis Bridge was previously Director of Bioservices at CABI, Head of Evolutionary Biology Group at British Antarctic Survey, and Kew Chair of Mycology at Birkbeck. He has 30 years history in practical microbial systematics in agricultural and environmental programmes. Author of over 150 scientific papers, chapters and reviews and co-editor for 10 books.

• 1: Contributors 2: Foreword, Ulrich Kück 3: Molecular Variability of Fungal Pathogens: Using the Rice Blast Fungus as a Case Study, N J Talbot 4: Molecular Variability in Sexually Reproducing Fungal Plant Pathogens, J M Duncan, D Cooke, P Birch and R Toth 5: Parasexuality in Fungi: Mechanisms and Significance in Wild Populations, A J M Debets 6: Molecular Variability of Viruses of Fungi, K W Buck 7: Activator-like Transposons in Beauveria Species, U Kück, S Jacobsen and F Kempken 8: Fungal Pathogenesis in Insects, J Clarkson, S Screen, A Bailey, B Cobb and K Charnley 9: Combination of Different Independent Molecular Markers to Understand the Genetic Structure of Beauveria Populations, Y Couteaudier, M Viaud and C Neuvéglise 10: Assessing Diversity in Colletotrichum and Trichodera Species Using Molecular Markers, P R Mills, S Sreenivasaprasad and S Muthumeenakshi 11: Variability in the Human Opportunistic Fungal Pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus, J P Latgé, J P Debeaupuis, J Sarfati and S Paris 12: Reproduction and Population Structure in Phytopathogenic Fungi, Y Brygoo, V Caffier, J Carlier, Jean-Vincent Fabre, D Fernandez, T Giraud, X Mourichon, C Neema, Jean-Loup Notteghem, C Pope, D Tharreau and Marc-Henri Lebrun 13: Variation in the Subtilisins of Fungal Pathogens of Insects and Nematodes, T M Butt, R Segers, S C Leal and B R Kerry 14: Metabolites Influencing Pathogenicity of Nematophagous Fungi, L V Lopez-Llorca and C Olivares-Bernabeu 15: Sources of Molecular Variability and Applications in Characterization of the Plant Pathogen Fusarium oxysporum, S L Woo and M Lorito 16: Variability of Human Pathogenic Fungi, D Sullivan and D Coleman 17: Mitochondrial DNA Differences Provide Maximum Intraspecific Polymorphism in the Entomopathogenic Fungi Verticillium lecanii and Metarhizium anisopliae and Allow Isolate Detection/Identification, M A Typas, A Mavridou and V Kouvelis 18: RAPD-PCR for the Molecular Characterization of Beauveria brongniartii Isolates Useful as Biocontrol Agents of the European Cockchafer Melolontha melolontha, O I Ozino, P Piatti and F Cravanzola 19: Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetic Implications of ITS Sequence in Plants and in Fungi, J Mugnier 20: Neural Network Approaches to Interpreting Variability, L Boddy, C W Morris, A Morgan and L Al-Haddad 21: Numerical Analysis of Molecular Variability: A Comparison of Hierarchic and Non-hierarchic Methods, P Bridge 22: Index

Paul Dennis Bridge was previously Director of Bioservices at CABI, Head of Evolutionary Biology Group at British Antarctic Survey, and Kew Chair of Mycology at Birkbeck. He has 30 years history in practical microbial systematics in agricultural and environmental programmes. Author of over 150 scientific papers, chapters and reviews and co-editor for 10 books.

• 1: Contributors 2: Foreword, Ulrich Kück 3: Molecular Variability of Fungal Pathogens: Using the Rice Blast Fungus as a Case Study, N J Talbot 4: Molecular Variability in Sexually Reproducing Fungal Plant Pathogens, J M Duncan, D Cooke, P Birch and R Toth 5: Parasexuality in Fungi: Mechanisms and Significance in Wild Populations, A J M Debets 6: Molecular Variability of Viruses of Fungi, K W Buck 7: Activator-like Transposons in Beauveria Species, U Kück, S Jacobsen and F Kempken 8: Fungal Pathogenesis in Insects, J Clarkson, S Screen, A Bailey, B Cobb and K Charnley 9: Combination of Different Independent Molecular Markers to Understand the Genetic Structure of Beauveria Populations, Y Couteaudier, M Viaud and C Neuvéglise 10: Assessing Diversity in Colletotrichum and Trichodera Species Using Molecular Markers, P R Mills, S Sreenivasaprasad and S Muthumeenakshi 11: Variability in the Human Opportunistic Fungal Pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus, J P Latgé, J P Debeaupuis, J Sarfati and S Paris 12: Reproduction and Population Structure in Phytopathogenic Fungi, Y Brygoo, V Caffier, J Carlier, Jean-Vincent Fabre, D Fernandez, T Giraud, X Mourichon, C Neema, Jean-Loup Notteghem, C Pope, D Tharreau and Marc-Henri Lebrun 13: Variation in the Subtilisins of Fungal Pathogens of Insects and Nematodes, T M Butt, R Segers, S C Leal and B R Kerry 14: Metabolites Influencing Pathogenicity of Nematophagous Fungi, L V Lopez-Llorca and C Olivares-Bernabeu 15: Sources of Molecular Variability and Applications in Characterization of the Plant Pathogen Fusarium oxysporum, S L Woo and M Lorito 16: Variability of Human Pathogenic Fungi, D Sullivan and D Coleman 17: Mitochondrial DNA Differences Provide Maximum Intraspecific Polymorphism in the Entomopathogenic Fungi Verticillium lecanii and Metarhizium anisopliae and Allow Isolate Detection/Identification, M A Typas, A Mavridou and V Kouvelis 18: RAPD-PCR for the Molecular Characterization of Beauveria brongniartii Isolates Useful as Biocontrol Agents of the European Cockchafer Melolontha melolontha, O I Ozino, P Piatti and F Cravanzola 19: Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetic Implications of ITS Sequence in Plants and in Fungi, J Mugnier 20: Neural Network Approaches to Interpreting Variability, L Boddy, C W Morris, A Morgan and L Al-Haddad 21: Numerical Analysis of Molecular Variability: A Comparison of Hierarchic and Non-hierarchic Methods, P Bridge 22: Index