This is the opening paper in the special issue of Fungal Diversity, which collates the data on
defining species. Defining and recognizing species has long been a controversial issue …

Biodiversity loss from disturbances caused by human activities means that species are
disappearing at an ever increasing rate. The high number of species that have yet to be …

Few among the millions of fungal species fulfill four basic conditions necessary to infect
humans: high temperature tolerance, ability to invade the human host, lysis and absorption …

The use of molecular taxonomy for identifying recently diverged species has transformed the
study of speciation in fungi. The pathogenic fungus Paracoccidioides spp has been …

Because less than one-third of clinically relevant fusaria can be accurately identified to
species level using phenotypic data (ie, morphological species recognition), we constructed …

Although endemic mycoses are a frequent health problem in Latin American countries,
clinical and epidemiological data remain scarce and fragmentary. These mycoses have a …

Species limits were investigated within the Fusarium graminearum clade (Fg clade) through
phylogenetic analyses of DNA sequences from portions of 11 nuclear genes including the …

This communication describes the consensus multi-locus typing scheme established by the
Cryptococcal Working Group I (Genotyping of Cryptococcus neoformans and C. gattii) of the …

Numerous fungal species of medical importance have been recently subjected to and will
likely continue to undergo nomenclatural changes as a result of the application of molecular …

Fungal infections commonly present with myriad symptoms that mimic other clinical entities,
notable amongst which is tuberculosis. Besides histoplasmosis and chronic pulmonary …