Carotenoids are a large group of health-promoting compounds used in many industrial
sectors, such as foods, feeds, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, nutraceuticals, and colorants …

Candia auris is an emerging human pathogenic yeast; yet, despite phenotypic attributes and
genomic evidence suggesting that it probably emerged from a natural reservoir, we know …

Hybridisation is a common event in yeasts often leading to genomic variability and
adaptation. The yeast Candida orthopsilosis is a human-associated opportunistic pathogen …

With the simultaneous growth in interest from the mycological community to discover fungal
species and classify them, there is also an important need to assemble all taxonomic …

Fungi are considered terrestrial and oceans are a “fungal desert”. However, with the
considerable progress made over past decades, fungi have emerged as morphologically …

Fungi are ubiquitous in all kinds of ecosystems with key ecological roles, while less than
10% of them have been described, of which, only about 1.2% are from marine habitats …

In this study, we successfully isolated two distinct yeasts from Moroccan extreme
environments. These yeasts were subjected to molecular characterization by analyzing their …

Highlights•Hybridisation is the crossing of divergent lineages.•Hybridisation in pervasive in
Saccharomycotina yeasts.•It is a source of genetic diversity, shapes evolution and …

Marine yeasts play a crucial role in marine microbial ecology, facilitating the biogeochemical
cycling of carbon and nitrogen in marine ecosystems, while also serving as important …

This article is a personal impression of the key scientists who contributed to the study of
marine mycology over past 174 years, especially those the author met during his career …