What are fungal species and how to delineate them?

KWT Chethana, IS Manawasinghe, VG Hurdeal… - Fungal Diversity, 2021 - Springer
This is the opening paper in the special issue of Fungal Diversity, which collates the data on
defining species. Defining and recognizing species has long been a controversial issue …

Toward a fully resolved fungal tree of life

TY James, JE Stajich, CT Hittinger… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
In this review, we discuss the current status and future challenges for fully elucidating the
fungal tree of life. In the last 15 years, advances in genomic technologies have …

[HTML][HTML] The taxon hypothesis paradigm—on the unambiguous detection and communication of taxa

U Kõljalg, HR Nilsson, D Schigel, L Tedersoo… - Microorganisms, 2020 - mdpi.com
Here, we describe the taxon hypothesis (TH) paradigm, which covers the construction,
identification, and communication of taxa as datasets. Defining taxa as datasets of …

Freshwater fungal numbers

MS Calabon, KD Hyde, EBG Jones, ZL Luo, W Dong… - Fungal Diversity, 2022 - Springer
A comprehensive account of fungal classification from freshwater habitats is outlined and
discussed in the present review based on literature of biodiversity studies and recent …

Mapping the human gut mycobiome in middle-aged and elderly adults: multiomics insights and implications for host metabolic health

M Shuai, Y Fu, H Zhong, W Gou, Z Jiang, Y Liang… - Gut, 2022 - gut.bmj.com
Objective The human gut fungal community, known as the mycobiome, plays a fundamental
role in the gut ecosystem and health. Here we aimed to investigate the determinants and …

[HTML][HTML] The potential role of marine fungi in plastic degradation–a review

E Zeghal, A Vaksmaa, H Vielfaure… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Plastic debris has been accumulating in the marine realm since the start of plastic mass
production in the 1950s. Due to the adverse effects on ocean life, the fate of plastics in the …

Diploid-dominant life cycles characterize the early evolution of Fungi

KR Amses, DR Simmons… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Most of the described species in kingdom Fungi are contained in two phyla, the Ascomycota
and the Basidiomycota (subkingdom Dikarya). As a result, our understanding of the biology …

[HTML][HTML] Trends in yeast diversity discovery

T Boekhout, AS Amend, F El Baidouri, T Gabaldón… - Fungal Diversity, 2022 - Springer
Yeasts, usually defined as unicellular fungi, occur in various fungal lineages. Hence, they
are not a taxonomic unit, but rather represent a fungal lifestyle shared by several unrelated …

[图书][B] Descriptions of medical fungi

S Kidd, C Halliday, D Ellis - 2022 - cabidigitallibrary.org
The genus Pseudopithomyces was introduced by Ariyawansa et al.(2015) to accommodate
several species which had previously been classified in the genus Pithomyces, notably …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogenomics of a new fungal phylum reveals multiple waves of reductive evolution across Holomycota

LJ Galindo, P López-García, G Torruella… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Compared to multicellular fungi and unicellular yeasts, unicellular fungi with free-living
flagellated stages (zoospores) remain poorly known and their phylogenetic position is often …