Threats posed by the fungal kingdom to humans, wildlife, and agriculture

MC Fisher, SJ Gurr, CA Cuomo, DS Blehert, H Jin… - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
The fungal kingdom includes at least 6 million eukaryotic species and is remarkable with
respect to its profound impact on global health, biodiversity, ecology, agriculture …

Mycobiome diversity: high-throughput sequencing and identification of fungi

RH Nilsson, S Anslan, M Bahram… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Fungi are major ecological players in both terrestrial and aquatic environments by cycling
organic matter and channelling nutrients across trophic levels. High-throughput sequencing …

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 …

Toward a fully resolved fungal tree of life

TY James, JE Stajich, CT Hittinger… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
In this review, we discuss the current status and future challenges for fully elucidating the
fungal tree of life. In the last 15 years, advances in genomic technologies have …

Microsporidiosis in humans

B Han, G Pan, LM Weiss - Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Microsporidia are obligate intracellular pathogens identified∼ 150 years ago as the cause
of pébrine, an economically important infection in silkworms. There are about 220 genera …

Fungi as mediators linking organisms and ecosystems

M Bahram, T Netherway - FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Fungi form a major and diverse component of most ecosystems on Earth. They are both
micro and macroorganisms with high and varying functional diversity as well as great …

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 …

Fungal taxonomy and sequence-based nomenclature

R Lücking, MC Aime, B Robbertse, AN Miller… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The identification and proper naming of microfungi, in particular plant, animal and human
pathogens, remains challenging. Molecular identification is becoming the default approach …

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 …

Soil protists: a fertile frontier in soil biology research

S Geisen, EAD Mitchell, S Adl… - FEMS microbiology …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Protists include all eukaryotes except plants, fungi and animals. They are an essential, yet
often forgotten, component of the soil microbiome. Method developments have now …