Among the over 31,000 recognized species within Basidiomycota, approximately 200 are
documented as parasites of other fungi, so-called mycoparasites. They exhibit a remarkable …

Circumstantial evidence, mostly morphological and ecological, points to ten different
mushroom host species for up to fifteen species of the mycoparasitic genus Squamanita …

Interfungal interactions are common in both the ancient fungal lineages and in the most
evolutionary derived “high” fungi. In this chapter, we focus on the most recent reports on …

During mycoparasitism, a fungus—the host—is parasitized by another fungus—the
mycoparasite. The genetic underpinnings of these relationships have been best …

Microbial communities in soil include a diversity of microorganisms whose interactions
influence microbial survival. The biological activity of a soil consists of complex biochemical …

Parasitism, a common form of symbiosis among many groups of hetero trophic organisms,
basically involves a nutritional relationship that is favor able to the existence of the parasite …

The Basidiomycota are the second largest division of fungi after the Ascomycota. In the past,
they were also classified as a class, Basidiomycetes. The Basidiomycota are divided into …

Fungi are eukaryotes that play essential roles in ecosystems. Among fungi, Basidiomycota is
one of the major phyla with more than 40,000 described species. We review species …

Mycoparasitism–when one fungus parasitizes another–has been reported to affect
Beauveria bassiana and mycorrhizal fungi in the field. However, mycoparasitism of any fungi …

The Zygomycetes includes a number of mycoparasitic genera, which differ in their strategies
of parasitism. Piptocephalis, Dispira, Dimargaris and Tieghemiomyces are typical biotrophs …