Biodiversity loss from disturbances caused by human activities means that species are
disappearing at an ever increasing rate. The high number of species that have yet to be …

Major insights into sexual development and cryptic sexuality within filamentous fungi have
been gained from investigations using Aspergillus species. Here, an overview is first given …

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 …

Fungi are a diverse group of organisms with a huge variation in reproductive strategy. While
almost all species can reproduce sexually, many reproduce asexually most of the time …

Sexual reproduction enables genetic exchange in eukaryotic organisms as diverse as fungi,
animals, plants, and ciliates. Given its ubiquity, sex is thought to have evolved once, possibly …

The discovery of penicillin entailed a decisive breakthrough in medicine. No other medical
advance has ever had the same impact in the clinical practise. The fungus Penicillium …

Penicillium chrysogenum is a filamentous fungus of major medical and historical
importance, being the original and present-day industrial source of the antibiotic penicillin …

Fungi have some of the most diverse sex lives in nature, ranging from self-fertility to obligate
outcrossing systems with several thousand different sexes, although at least 20% of fungal …

Background Epicoccum nigrum Link (syn. E. purpurascens Ehrenb. ex Schlecht) is a
saprophytic ascomycete distributed worldwide which colonizes a myriad of substrates. This …

Significant progress has been made since the previous edition of The Mycota published in
2006. The most conspicuous advances have concerned firstly our understanding of the …