Toward a fully resolved fungal tree of life

TY James, JE Stajich, CT Hittinger… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
In this review, we discuss the current status and future challenges for fully elucidating the
fungal tree of life. In the last 15 years, advances in genomic technologies have …

Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of mucormycosis: an initiative of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology in cooperation with the …

OA Cornely, A Alastruey-Izquierdo, D Arenz… - The Lancet infectious …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Mucormycosis is a difficult to diagnose rare disease with high morbidity and mortality.
Diagnosis is often delayed, and disease tends to progress rapidly. Urgent surgical and …

Unambiguous identification of fungi: where do we stand and how accurate and precise is fungal DNA barcoding?

R Lücking, MC Aime, B Robbertse, AN Miller… - IMA fungus, 2020 - Springer
True fungi (Fungi) and fungus-like organisms (eg Mycetozoa, Oomycota) constitute the
second largest group of organisms based on global richness estimates, with around 3 …

Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa

NN Wijayawardene, KD Hyde… - … Online: Journal of …, 2020 - e-space.mmu.ac.uk
This article provides an outline of the classification of the kingdom Fungi (including fossil
fungi. ie dispersed spores, mycelia, sporophores, mycorrhizas). We treat 19 phyla of fungi …

A genome-scale phylogeny of the kingdom Fungi

Y Li, JL Steenwyk, Y Chang, Y Wang, TY James… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Phylogenomic studies using genome-scale amounts of data have greatly improved
understanding of the tree of life. Despite the diversity, ecological significance, and …

High-level classification of the Fungi and a tool for evolutionary ecological analyses

L Tedersoo, S Sánchez-Ramírez, U Koljalg, M Bahram… - Fungal diversity, 2018 - Springer
High-throughput sequencing studies generate vast amounts of taxonomic data. Evolutionary
ecological hypotheses of the recovered taxa and Species Hypotheses are difficult to test due …

Fungal evolution: diversity, taxonomy and phylogeny of the Fungi

MA Naranjo‐Ortiz, T Gabaldón - Biological Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The fungal kingdom comprises a hyperdiverse clade of heterotrophic eukaryotes
characterized by the presence of a chitinous cell wall, the loss of phagotrophic capabilities …

Fungal nomenclature: managing change is the name of the game

SE Kidd, A Abdolrasouli, F Hagen - Open forum infectious …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Fungal species have undergone and continue to undergo significant nomenclatural change,
primarily due to the abandonment of dual species nomenclature in 2013 and the …

Challenges in the diagnosis and treatment of mucormycosis

A Skiada, C Lass-Floerl, N Klimko, A Ibrahim… - Medical …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The diagnosis and treatment of mucormycosis are challenging. The incidence of the disease
seems to be increasing. Hematological malignancies are the most common underlying …

Fungal identification using molecular tools: a primer for the natural products research community

HA Raja, AN Miller, CJ Pearce… - Journal of natural …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Fungi are morphologically, ecologically, metabolically, and phylogenetically diverse. They
are known to produce numerous bioactive molecules, which makes them very useful for …