Colletotrichum: current status and future directions

PF Cannon, U Damm, PR Johnston… - Studies in …, 2012 - ingentaconnect.com
A review is provided of the current state of understanding of Colletotrichum systematics,
focusing on species-level data and the major clades. The taxonomic placement of the genus …

Biochemistry and evolution of anaerobic energy metabolism in eukaryotes

M Müller, M Mentel, JJ van Hellemond… - Microbiology and …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Major insights into the phylogenetic distribution, biochemistry, and evolutionary significance
of organelles involved in ATP synthesis (energy metabolism) in eukaryotes that thrive in …

Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi

CL Schoch, KA Seifert, S Huhndorf… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Six DNA regions were evaluated as potential DNA barcodes for Fungi, the second largest
kingdom of eukaryotic life, by a multinational, multilaboratory consortium. The region of the …

Phylogenetic reference data for systematics and phylotaxonomy of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi from phylum to species level

M Krüger, C Krüger, C Walker, H Stockinger… - New …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Although the molecular phylogeny, evolution and biodiversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal
fungi (AMF) are becoming clearer, phylotaxonomically reliable sequence data are still …

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CL Schoch, KA Seifert, S Huhndorf… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Six DNA regions were evaluated as potential DNA barcodes for Fungi, the second largest
kingdom of eukaryotic life, by a multinational, multilaboratory consortium. The region of the …

Marine fungi: their ecology and molecular diversity

TA Richards, MDM Jones, G Leonard… - Annual review of …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Fungi appear to be rare in marine environments. There are relatively few marine isolates in
culture, and fungal small subunit ribosomal DNA (SSU rDNA) sequences are rarely …

Taxonomy of fungi causing mucormycosis and entomophthoramycosis (zygomycosis) and nomenclature of the disease: molecular mycologic perspectives

KJ Kwon-Chung - Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Molecular phylogenetic analysis confirmed the phylum Zygomycota to be polyphyletic, and
the taxa conventionally classified in Zygomycota are now distributed among the new phylum …

Horizontal gene transfer in fungi

DA Fitzpatrick - FEMS microbiology letters, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is frequently observed in prokaryotes and until recently was
assumed to be of limited importance to eukaryotes. However, there is an increasing body of …

Microsporidian genome analysis reveals evolutionary strategies for obligate intracellular growth

CA Cuomo, CA Desjardins, MA Bakowski… - Genome …, 2012 - genome.cshlp.org
Microsporidia comprise a large phylum of obligate intracellular eukaryotes that are fungal-
related parasites responsible for widespread disease, and here we address questions about …

A multi-locus phylogenetic evaluation of Diaporthe (Phomopsis)

D Udayanga, X Liu, PW Crous, EHC McKenzie… - Fungal diversity, 2012 - Springer
Abstract The genus Diaporthe (Phomopsis) includes important plant pathogenic fungi with
wide host ranges and geographic distributions. In the present study, phylogenetic species …