Durable crop protection is an essential component of current and future food security.
However, the effectiveness of pesticides is threatened by the evolution of resistant …

Fungi are a highly diverse group of heterotrophic eukaryotes characterized by the absence
of phagotrophy and the presence of a chitinous cell wall. While unicellular fungi are far from …

Coccidioidomycosis, colloquially known as Valley Fever, is an invasive dimorphic fungal
infection caused by Coccidioides immitis and C. posadasii. The fungi are found in the arid …

• Premise of the study: Fungi are major decomposers in certain ecosystems and essential
associates of many organisms. They provide enzymes and drugs and serve as experimental …

Fungi must meet four criteria to infect humans: growth at human body temperatures,
circumvention or penetration of surface barriers, lysis and absorption of tissue, and …

Coccidioidomycosis is the endemic mycosis caused by the fungal pathogens Coccidioides
immitis and C. posadasii. This review is a summary of the recent advances that have been …

Abstract FungiDB (http://FungiDB. org) is a functional genomic resource for pan-fungal
genomes that was developed in partnership with the Eukaryotic Pathogen Bioinformatic …

Fungi are a diverse group of organisms with a huge variation in reproductive strategy. While
almost all species can reproduce sexually, many reproduce asexually most of the time …

Cross-species gene transfer is often associated with bacteria, which have evolved several
mechanisms that facilitate horizontal DNA exchange. However, the increased availability of …

Organisms exhibit extensive variation in ecological niche breadth, from very narrow
(specialists) to very broad (generalists). Two general paradigms have been proposed to …