The fungal kingdom includes at least 6 million eukaryotic species and is remarkable with
respect to its profound impact on global health, biodiversity, ecology, agriculture …

Fungi are a highly diverse group of heterotrophic eukaryotes characterized by the absence
of phagotrophy and the presence of a chitinous cell wall. While unicellular fungi are far from …

Secretory immunoglobulin A (sIgA) plays an important role in gut barrier protection by
shaping the resident microbiota community, restricting the growth of bacterial pathogens and …

Quorum sensing (QS), a density-dependent signaling mechanism of microbial cells, involves
an exchange and sense of low molecular weight signaling compounds called autoinducers …

Aspergilli produce conidia for reproduction or to survive hostile conditions, and they are
highly effective in the distribution of conidia through the environment. In …

During their life cycles, pathogens have to adapt to many biotic and abiotic environmental
stresses to maximize their overall fitness. Morphological transitions are one of the least …

The question of how phenotypic and genomic complexity are inter‐related and how they are
shaped through evolution is a central question in biology that historically has been …

How do fungi navigate through the complex microscopic maze-like structures found in the
soil? Fungal behaviour, especially at the hyphal scale, is largely unknown and challenging …

Hyphae represent a hallmark structure of multicellular fungi. The evolutionary origins of
hyphae and of the underlying genes are, however, hardly known. By systematically …

Complex multicellularity represents the most advanced level of biological organization and it
has evolved only a few times: in metazoans, green plants, brown and red algae and fungi …