Cross-species gene transfer is often associated with bacteria, which have evolved several
mechanisms that facilitate horizontal DNA exchange. However, the increased availability of …

The interaction of pathogens with their hosts creates strong reciprocal selection pressures.
Pathogens often deploy an arsenal of small proteins called effectors that manipulate the …

Fungi are ideal model organisms for dissecting the genomic bases of adaptive divergence in
eukaryotes. They have simple morphologies and small genomes, occupy contrasting, well …

The fungal kingdom is remarkable in its breadth and depth of impact on global health,
agriculture, biodiversity, ecology, manufacturing, and biomedical research. With at least 6 …

Hybridization is increasingly recognized as an important force impacting adaptation and
evolution in many lineages of fungi. During hybridization, divergent genomes and alleles are …

Strategies for promoting high-efficiency homologous gene replacement have been
developed and adopted for many filamentous fungal species. The next generation of …

In this review I give a personal perspective of how fungal biology has changed since I
started my Ph. D. in 1963. At that time we were working in the shadow of the birth of …

Epidemics caused by fungal plant pathogens pose a major threat to agro-ecosystems and
impact global food security. High-throughput sequencing enabled major advances in …

Throughout evolutionary history in the kingdom Fungi, taxa have exchanged genetic
information among species, as revealed in particular by analyses of genome sequences. In …

Although fungi have been important model organisms for solving genetic, molecular, and
ecological problems, recently, they are also becoming an important source of infectious …