Fungi exhibit a wide range of sporophore morphologies. Amongst the Agaricomycetes,
sporophores include mushroom, coralloid, bracket and sequestrate forms. A striking …

Global change is reshaping Earth's biodiversity, but the changing distributions of
nonpathogenic fungi remain largely undocumented, as do mechanisms enabling invasions …

Abstract The poisonous European mushroom Amanita phalloides (the “death cap”) is
invading California. Whether the death caps' toxic secondary metabolites are evolving as it …

Uniparental inheritance of mitochondria enables organisms to avoid the costs of intracellular
competition among potentially selfish organelles. By preventing recombination, uniparental …

Genome assembly and annotation using short-paired reads is challenging for eukaryotic
organisms due to their large size, variable ploidy and large number of repetitive elements …

Eukaryotes have evolved myriad ways of uniting gametes during sexual reproduction. A
repeated pattern is the convergent evolution of a mating system with the fusion of larger …

Morchella galilaea is unique among morels by its autumnal fruiting and a worldwide but
disjunct distribution, strongly biased towards islands. The drivers of this reversed seasonality …

Background: The decomposer Amanita thiersii was originally described from a Texas lawn.
Over time the species appears to have spread its range, but whether A. thiersii is an …

ABSTRACT A wide diversity of mating systems occur in nature, with frequent evolutionary
transitions in mating-compatibility mechanisms. Basidiomycete fungi typically have two …