Clonal reproduction is common in fungi and fungal-like organisms during epidemics and
invasion events. The success of clonal fungi shaped systems for their classification and
some pathogens are tacitly treated as asexual. We argue that genetic recombination driven
by sexual reproduction must be a starting hypothesis when dealing with fungi for two
reasons:(1) Clones eventually crash because they lack adaptability; and (2) fungi find a way
to exchange genetic material through recombination, whether sexual, parasexual, or …