Phylogenomic studies using genome-scale amounts of data have greatly improved
understanding of the tree of life. Despite the diversity, ecological significance, and …

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 …

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 …

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 …

In 1996 the genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was published and marked the beginning
of a new era in fungal biology (1). Since then, rapid advancements in both sequencing …

Species concepts have long provided a source of debate among biologists. These lively
debates have been important for reaching consensus on how to communicate across …

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 …

The filamentous fungal family Aspergillaceae contains> 1,000 known species, mostly in the
genera Aspergillus and Penicillium. Several species are used in the food, biotechnology …

The fungal kingdom comprises a hyperdiverse clade of heterotrophic eukaryotes
characterized by the presence of a chitinous cell wall, the loss of phagotrophic capabilities …

Genomic data has opened new possibilities to understand how organisms change over
time, and could enable the discovery of previously undescribed species. Although taxonomy …