Fungi are ecologically important heterotrophs that have radiated into most niches on Earth
and fulfil key ecological services. Despite intense interest in their origins, major genomic …

The order Onygenales is classified in the class Eurotiomycetes of the subphylum
Pezizomycotina. Families in this order have classically been isolated from soil and dung …

• Premise of the study: Accurate species delimitation is important for understanding the
diversification of biota and has critical implications for ecological and conservation studies …

The history of assigning ranks to fungi, as well as the relative importance of using
divergence time estimates is reviewed. The paper pays tribute to the major mycological …

Sordariomycetes is one of the largest classes of Ascomycota and is characterised by
perithecial ascomata and inoperculate unitunicate asci. The class includes many important …

Fungal phylogenetics has always been based on characters, but technological and
intellectual advances are introducing new kinds of characters and new ways of thinking …

Cladistic analysis was performed on partial sequences from the nuclear-encoded small
subunit ribosomal DNA. Taxa were sampled from Ceratocystis, Ophiostoma and …

Despite the recent progress in molecular phylogenetics, many of the deepest relationships
among the main lineages of the largest fungal phylum, Ascomycota, remain unresolved. To …

Background Fungi are a diverse eukaryotic group of degraders, pathogens, and symbionts,
with many lineages known only from DNA sequences in soil, sediments, air, and water …

Asexually reproducing fungi play a significant role in essential processes in managed and
wild ecosystems such as nutrients cycling and multitrophic interactions. A large number of …