Anaerobic fungi (phylum Neocallimastigomycota): advances in understanding their taxonomy, life cycle, ecology, role and biotechnological potential

RJ Gruninger, AK Puniya, TM Callaghan… - FEMS microbiology …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Anaerobic fungi (phylum Neocallimastigomycota) inhabit the gastrointestinal tract of
mammalian herbivores, where they play an important role in the degradation of plant …

Yarrowia lipolytica: Safety assessment of an oleaginous yeast with a great industrial potential

M Groenewald, T Boekhout, C Neuvéglise… - Critical reviews in …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Yarrowia lipolytica has been developed as a production host for a large variety of
biotechnological applications. Efficacy and safety studies have demonstrated the safe use of …

Finding needles in haystacks: linking scientific names, reference specimens and molecular data for Fungi

CL Schoch, B Robbertse, V Robert, D Vu… - Database, 2014 - academic.oup.com
DNA phylogenetic comparisons have shown that morphology-based species recognition
often underestimates fungal diversity. Therefore, the need for accurate DNA sequence data …

Endemism and functional convergence across the North American soil mycobiome

JM Talbot, TD Bruns, JW Taylor… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Identifying the ecological processes that structure communities and the consequences for
ecosystem function is a central goal of ecology. The recognition that fungi, bacteria, and …

Structure of microsporidia

J Vávra, JI Ronny Larsson - Microsporidia: pathogens of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Microsporidia are eukaryotic and unicellular. Structural characters are still basic for
microsporidian classification, despite that molecular biology characters are progressively …

A multigene phylogenetic synthesis for the class Lecanoromycetes (Ascomycota): 1307 fungi representing 1139 infrageneric taxa, 317 genera and 66 families

J Miadlikowska, F Kauff, F Högnabba, JC Oliver… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2014 - Elsevier
The Lecanoromycetes is the largest class of lichenized Fungi, and one of the most species-
rich classes in the kingdom. Here we provide a multigene phylogenetic synthesis (using …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating the Phanerozoic history of the Ascomycota lineages: combining fossil and molecular data

C Beimforde, K Feldberg, S Nylinder, J Rikkinen… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2014 - Elsevier
The phylum Ascomycota is by far the largest group in the fungal kingdom. Ecologically
important mutualistic associations such as mycorrhizae and lichens have evolved in this …

14 Agaricomycetes

DS Hibbett, R Bauer, M Binder, AJ Giachini… - … and evolution: part A, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Agaricomycetes includes ca. 21,000 described species of mushroom-forming fungi
that function as decayers, pathogens, and mutualists in both terrestrial and aquatic habitats …

[HTML][HTML] Single nucleus genome sequencing reveals high similarity among nuclei of an endomycorrhizal fungus

K Lin, E Limpens, Z Zhang, S Ivanov… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Nuclei of arbuscular endomycorrhizal fungi have been described as highly diverse due to
their asexual nature and absence of a single cell stage with only one nucleus. This has …

Mucormycosis–from the pathogens to the disease

U Binder, E Maurer, C Lass‐Flörl - Clinical Microbiology and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Mucormycosis is an emerging fungal infection worldwide, with devastating disease
symptoms and diverse clinical manifestations. The most important underlying risk factors are …