The kingdom Fungi comprises species that inhabit nearly all ecosystems. Fungi exist as both
free-living and symbiotic unicellular and multicellular organisms with diverse morphologies …

Macrofungus is defined as the fungus that grows an observable sporocarp. The sporocarps
of many species are commonly called mushrooms and consumed by people all around the …

Macroscopic fungi, mainly higher basidiomycetes and some ascomycetes, are considered
medicinal mushrooms and have long been used in different areas due to their …

Background The glucose–methanol–choline (GMC) superfamily is a large and functionally
diverse family of oxidoreductases that share a common structural fold. Fungal members of …

Background Many fungi grow as saprobic organisms and obtain nutrients from a wide range
of dead organic materials. Among saprobes, fungal species that grow on wood or in polluted …

Litter decomposing Agaricales play key role in terrestrial carbon cycling, but little is known
about their decomposition mechanisms. We assembled datasets of 42 gene families …

Species delimitation is one of the most fundamental processes in biology. Biodiversity
undertakings, for instance, require explicit species concepts and criteria for species …

The resurrection of ancestral enzymes of now-extinct organisms (paleogenetics) is a
developing field that allows the study of evolutionary hypotheses otherwise impossible to be …

Fungi dominate the recycling of carbon sequestered in woody biomass. This process of
organic turnover was first evolved among “white rot” fungi that degrade lignin to access …

Agaricomycetes are fruiting body‐forming fungi that produce some of the most efficient
enzyme systems to degrade wood. Despite decades‐long interest in their biology, the …