Fungal taxonomy and ecology have been revolutionized by the application of molecular
methods and both have increasing connections to genomics and functional biology …

Species concepts have long provided a source of debate among biologists. These lively
debates have been important for reaching consensus on how to communicate across …

Fungi are ubiquitous inhabitants of soil and aquatic environments, and they establish and
maintain either parasitic or symbiotic relationships with animals and plants. They are major …

Fungal taxonomy seeks to discover, describe, and classify all species of Fungi and provide
tools for their identification. About 100,000 fungal species have been described so far, but it …

The 140 000 or so fungal species reported so far are heterogeneously defined based on
varying criteria such as morphological, physiological, mating, and (or) molecular features …

Fungi are major ecological players in both terrestrial and aquatic environments by cycling
organic matter and channelling nutrients across trophic levels. High-throughput sequencing …

True fungi (Fungi) and fungus-like organisms (eg Mycetozoa, Oomycota) constitute the
second largest group of organisms based on global richness estimates, with around 3 …

To ensure a stable platform for fungal taxonomy, it is of paramount importance that the
genetic application of generic names be based on their DNA sequence data, and wherever …

The identification and proper naming of microfungi, in particular plant, animal and human
pathogens, remains challenging. Molecular identification is becoming the default approach …

There is urgent need for a formal nomenclature of sequence-based, voucherless Fungi,
given that environmental sequencing has accumulated more than one billion fungal ITS …