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 evolution: major ecological adaptations and evolutionary transitions

MA Naranjo‐Ortiz, T Gabaldón - Biological Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

A phylum-level phylogenetic classification of zygomycete fungi based on genome-scale data

JW Spatafora, Y Chang, GL Benny, K Lazarus… - Mycologia, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Zygomycete fungi were classified as a single phylum, Zygomycota, based on sexual
reproduction by zygospores, frequent asexual reproduction by sporangia, absence of …

Notes for genera: Basal clades of fungi (Including aphelidiomycota, basidiobolomycota, blastocladiomycota, calcarisporiellomycota, caulochytriomycota …

NN Wijayawardene, J Pawłowska, PM Letcher, PM Kirk… - Fungal diversity, 2018 - Springer
Compared to the higher fungi (Dikarya), taxonomic and evolutionary studies on the basal
clades of fungi are fewer in number. Thus, the generic boundaries and higher ranks in the …

Fungal evolution: cellular, genomic and metabolic complexity

MA Naranjo‐Ortiz, T Gabaldón - Biological Reviews, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The question of how phenotypic and genomic complexity are inter‐related and how they are
shaped through evolution is a central question in biology that historically has been …

Diversity of cytosine methylation across the fungal tree of life

AJ Bewick, BT Hofmeister, RA Powers… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
The generation of thousands of fungal genomes is leading to a better understanding of
genes and genomic organization within the kingdom. However, the epigenome, which …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting global numbers of teleomorphic ascomycetes

IC Senanayake, D Pem, AR Rathnayaka… - Fungal Diversity, 2022 - Springer
Sexual reproduction is the basic way to form high genetic diversity and it is beneficial in
evolution and speciation of fungi. The global diversity of teleomorphic species in …

Freshwater fungal biology

MS Calabon, KD Hyde, EBG Jones, DF Bao… - …, 2023 - estudogeral.uc.pt
Research into freshwater fungi has generated a wealth of information over the past decades
with various published articles, ie, reviews, books, and monographs. With the advancement …

[HTML][HTML] A taxonomic revision of the genus Conidiobolus (Ancylistaceae, Entomophthorales): four clades including three new genera

Y Nie, DS Yu, CF Wang, XY Liu, B Huang - MycoKeys, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The genus Conidiobolus is an important group in entomophthoroid fungi and is considered
to be polyphyletic in recent molecular phylogenies. To re-evaluate and delimit this genus …