The fungal kingdom comprises a hyperdiverse clade of heterotrophic eukaryotes
characterized by the presence of a chitinous cell wall, the loss of phagotrophic capabilities …

Glucans are the most abundant polysaccharides in the cell walls of fungi, and their
structures are highly variable. Accordingly, their glucose moieties may be joined through …

The wall gives a Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell its osmotic integrity; defines cell shape
during budding growth, mating, sporulation, and pseudohypha formation; and presents …

Fungi grow within their food, externally digesting it and absorbing nutrients across a
semirigid chitinous cell wall. Members of the new phylum Cryptomycota were proposed to …

Parasitism, aptly defined as one of the 'living-together'strategies (Trager, 1986), presents a
dynamic system in which the parasite and its host are under evolutionary pressure to evolve …

The polysaccharide-rich wall, which envelopes the fungal cell, is pivotal to the maintenance
of cellular integrity and for the protection of the cell from external aggressors− such as …

Fungal Cell Wall presents a comprehensive examination of the structure, synthesis, and
growth of the fungal cell wall and explores the reasons for the cell wall's importance to the …

Chitin is a polymer of N-acetylglucosamine, which assembles into microfibrils of about 20
sugar chains. These microfibrils serve as a structural component of natural biocomposites …

The Opisthokonta are a eukaryotic supergroup divided in two main lineages: animals and
related protistan taxa, and fungi and their allies [1, 2]. There is a great diversity of lifestyles …

The chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, causes chytridiomycosis and is a major
contributor to global amphibian declines. Although amphibians have robust immune …