Integrative approaches for species delimitation in Ascomycota

SSN Maharachchikumbura, Y Chen, HA Ariyawansa… - Fungal Diversity, 2021 - Springer
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 …

The genomic consequences of hybridization

BM Moran, C Payne, Q Langdon, DL Powell… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
In the past decade, advances in genome sequencing have allowed researchers to uncover
the history of hybridization in diverse groups of species, including our own. Although the …

[HTML][HTML] Species delimitation 4.0: integrative taxonomy meets artificial intelligence

K Karbstein, L Kösters, L Hodač, M Hofmann… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2024 - cell.com
Although species are central units for biological research, recent findings in genomics are
raising awareness that what we call species can be ill-founded entities due to solely …

Interspecific hybridization as a driver of fungal evolution and adaptation

J Steensels, B Gallone, KJ Verstrepen - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
Cross-species gene transfer is often associated with bacteria, which have evolved several
mechanisms that facilitate horizontal DNA exchange. However, the increased availability of …

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 …

Eukaryote hybrid genomes

A Runemark, M Vallejo-Marin, JI Meier - PLoS genetics, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Interspecific hybridization is the process where closely related species mate and produce
offspring with admixed genomes. The genomic revolution has shown that hybridization is …

Genome-scale data reveal the role of hybridization in lichen-forming fungi

R Keuler, A Garretson, T Saunders, RJ Erickson… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Advancements in molecular genetics have revealed that hybridization may be common
among plants, animals, and fungi, playing a role in evolutionary dynamics and speciation …

Evolution and codon usage bias of mitochondrial and nuclear genomes in Aspergillus section Flavi

M Hugaboom, EA Hatmaker, AL LaBella, A Rokas - G3, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The fungal genus Aspergillus contains a diversity of species divided into taxonomic sections
of closely related species. Section Flavi contains 33 species, many of industrial, agricultural …

Mitochondrial genomes and mitochondrion related gene insights to fungal evolution

VN Kouvelis, G Hausner - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Mitochondria are organelles of eukaryotic cells that provide the platform for efficient energy
metabolism, Fe/S-cluster biosynthesis, amino acid metabolism, and moreover, they have …

Mapping mitonuclear epistasis using a novel recombinant yeast population

THM Nguyen, A Tinz-Burdick, M Lenhardt… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Genetic variation in mitochondrial and nuclear genomes can perturb mitonuclear
interactions and lead to phenotypic differences between individuals and populations …