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 …

Back to the future: natural history and the way forward in modern fungal ecology

KG Peay - Fungal Ecology, 2014 - Elsevier
The growing power and increasing availability of molecular tools for identifying fungi in
environmental samples has revolutionized the way that fungal ecologists work. As a result …

A consistent phylogenetic backbone for the fungi

I Ebersberger, R de Matos Simoes… - Molecular Biology …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The kingdom of fungi provides model organisms for biotechnology, cell biology, genetics,
and life sciences in general. Only when their phylogenetic relationships are stably resolved …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogenomic insights into the early diversification of fungi

JFH Strassert, MT Monaghan - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Phylogenomic analyses have boosted our understanding of the evolutionary trajectories of
all living forms by providing continuous improvements to the tree of life. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Within …

[HTML][HTML] A genome-scale phylogeny of the kingdom Fungi

Y Li, JL Steenwyk, Y Chang, Y Wang, TY James… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Phylogenomic studies using genome-scale amounts of data have greatly improved
understanding of the tree of life. Despite the diversity, ecological significance, and …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in understanding the evolution of fungal genome architecture

SJ Priest, V Yadav, J Heitman - F1000Research, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Diversity within the fungal kingdom is evident from the wide range of morphologies fungi
display as well as the various ecological roles and industrial purposes they serve …

[HTML][HTML] Novel soil-inhabiting clades fill gaps in the fungal tree of life

L Tedersoo, M Bahram, R Puusepp, RH Nilsson… - Microbiome, 2017 - Springer
Background Fungi are a diverse eukaryotic group of degraders, pathogens, and symbionts,
with many lineages known only from DNA sequences in soil, sediments, air, and water …

[HTML][HTML] Leveraging single-cell genomics to expand the fungal tree of life

SR Ahrendt, CA Quandt, D Ciobanu, A Clum… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Environmental DNA surveys reveal that most fungal diversity represents uncultured species.
We sequenced the genomes of eight uncultured species across the fungal tree of life using a …

Fungal genomes and insights into the evolution of the kingdom

JE Stajich - Microbiology spectrum, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
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 …

Mind the gap; seven reasons to close fragmented genome assemblies

BPHJ Thomma, MF Seidl, X Shi-Kunne… - Fungal Genetics and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Like other domains of life, research into the biology of filamentous microbes has greatly
benefited from the advent of whole-genome sequencing. Next-generation sequencing …