Ascomycota, the largest and most well-studied phylum of fungi, contains three subphyla:
Saccharomycotina (budding yeasts), Pezizomycotina (filamentous fungi), and …

Ascomycota account for about two-thirds of named fungal species. 1 Over 98% of known
Ascomycota belong to the Pezizomycotina, including many economically important species …

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 …

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 …

Background Gene loss, inversions, translocations, and other chromosomal rearrangements
vary among species, resulting in different rates of structural genome evolution. Major …

Background To date, most fungal phylogenies have been derived from single gene
comparisons, or from concatenated alignments of a small number of genes. The increase in …

The subphylum Saccharomycotina is a lineage in the fungal phylum Ascomycota that
exhibits levels of genomic diversity similar to those of plants and animals. The …

Fungal genomes vary considerably in size and organization. The genome of Microsporidium
contains less than 3 Mb while the genomes of several Basidiomycetes and Ascomycetes …

Although significant progress has been made resolving deep branches of the fungal tree of
life, many fungal systematists are interested in species-level questions to both define …

Several morphologically dissimilar ascomycete fungi including Schizosaccharomyces,
Taphrina, Saitoella, Pneumocystis, and Neolecta have been grouped into the taxon …