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 …

Fungi in aquatic ecosystems

HP Grossart, S Van den Wyngaert, M Kagami… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Fungi are phylogenetically and functionally diverse ubiquitous components of almost all
ecosystems on Earth, including aquatic environments stretching from high montane lakes …

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 …

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 …

Freshwater fungal numbers

MS Calabon, KD Hyde, EBG Jones, ZL Luo, W Dong… - Fungal Diversity, 2022 - Springer
A comprehensive account of fungal classification from freshwater habitats is outlined and
discussed in the present review based on literature of biodiversity studies and recent …

Microsporidia: obligate intracellular pathogens within the fungal kingdom

B Han, LM Weiss - Microbiology spectrum, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Microsporidia are obligate intracellular pathogens related to Fungi. These organisms have a
unique invasion organelle, the polar tube, which upon appropriate environmental …

Microsporidia–emergent pathogens in the global food chain

GD Stentiford, JJ Becnel, LM Weiss, PJ Keeling… - Trends in …, 2016 - cell.com
Intensification of food production has the potential to drive increased disease prevalence in
food plants and animals. Microsporidia are diversely distributed, opportunistic, and density …

Diverse applications of environmental DNA methods in parasitology

D Bass, GD Stentiford, DTJ Littlewood… - Trends in …, 2015 - cell.com
Nucleic acid extraction and sequencing of genes from organisms within environmental
samples encompasses a variety of techniques collectively referred to as environmental DNA …

Evolution of microsporidia: An extremely successful group of eukaryotic intracellular parasites

L Wadi, AW Reinke - PLoS pathogens, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Microsporidia are obligate intracellular parasites that can infect a wide range of hosts. They
cause death and disease in both humans and agriculturally important animals. They have …

Phylogenomics of a new fungal phylum reveals multiple waves of reductive evolution across Holomycota

LJ Galindo, P López-García, G Torruella… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Compared to multicellular fungi and unicellular yeasts, unicellular fungi with free-living
flagellated stages (zoospores) remain poorly known and their phylogenetic position is often …