Metagenomic approaches are increasingly recognized as a baseline for understanding the
ecology and evolution of microbial ecosystems. The development of methods for pathway …

Sequences of selected marker loci have been widely used for the identification of specific
pathogens and the development of sequence-based diagnostic methods. Although such …

A brief survey towards an understanding of evolution of Basidiomycota in the last five
decades is given. Between 1960–1990 studies were based mainly on morphology …

Epitypification can solve many taxonomic problems and stabilize the understanding of
species, genera, families or orders. The aim of this paper is to illustrate how to epitypify. A …

Background The experimental materials were a 60-year-old tea tree (Camellia sinensis cv.
Shu Cha Zao; SCZ)(the mother plant) and 1-year-old and 20-year-old plants of SCZ that …

Helminthosporium is a polyphyletic genus in Massarinaceae (Pleosporales). Species of
Helminthosporium are characterized by having septate and erect conidiophores, acro …

This paper discusses three issues that challenge contemporaneous taxonomy, with
examples from the fields of mycology and lichenology, formulated as three questions:(1) …

To date, the majority of mycological studies are focused on Ascomycota and Basidiomycota.
Research on basal fungi is rather limited with an obvious scarcity of data. Classification of …

Organismal-grade multicellularity has been achieved only in animals, plants and fungi. All
three kingdoms manifest phenotypically disparate body plans but their evolution has only …

The inclusion of phylogenetic metrics in community ecology has provided insights into
important ecological processes, particularly when combined with high-throughput …