Advances in the evolution and ecology of 13-and 17-year periodical cicadas

C Simon, JR Cooley, R Karban… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Apart from model organisms, 13-and 17-year periodical cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae:
Magicicada) are among the most studied insects in evolution and ecology. They are …

Sequencing the genomes of the first terrestrial fungal lineages: what have we learned?

AP Gryganskyi, J Golan, A Muszewska, A Idnurm… - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
The first genome sequenced of a eukaryotic organism was for Saccharomyces cerevisiae,
as reported in 1996, but it was more than 10 years before any of the zygomycete fungi …

The genus Entomophthora: bringing the insect destroyers into the twenty-first century

C Elya, HH De Fine Licht - IMA fungus, 2021 - Springer
The fungal genus Entomophthora consists of highly host-specific pathogens that cause
deadly epizootics in their various insect hosts. The most well-known among these is the …

Fungus–insect interactions beyond bilateral regimes: the importance and strategy to outcompete host ectomicrobiomes by fungal parasites

S Hong, Y Sun, H Chen, P Zhao, C Wang - Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Insect cuticles are inhabited by diverse microorganisms.•Insect ectomicrobiomes
can mediate colonization resistance against fungal parasites.•Fungal pathogens can …

Diversity and Breadth of Host Specificity among Arthropod Pathogens in the Entomophthoromycotina

NE Sacco, AE Hajek - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
A meta-analysis based on the published literature was conducted to evaluate the breadth of
host ranges of arthropod pathogens in the fungal subphylum Entomophthoromycotina. The …

Signatures of transposon-mediated genome inflation, host specialization, and photoentrainment in Entomophthora muscae and allied entomophthoralean fungi

JE Stajich, B Lovett, E Lee, AM Macias, AE Hajek… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Despite over a century of observations, the obligate insect parasites within the order
Entomophthorales remain poorly characterized at the genetic level. In this manuscript, we …

Mechanisms behind the madness: how do zombie-making fungal entomopathogens affect host behavior to increase transmission?

C de Bekker, WC Beckerson, C Elya - Mbio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Transmission is a crucial step in all pathogen life cycles. As such, certain species have
evolved complex traits that increase their chances to find and invade new hosts. Fungal …

Hijacking time: How Ophiocordyceps fungi could be using ant host clocks to manipulate behavior

C de Bekker, B Das - Parasite Immunology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstracts Ophiocordyceps fungi manipulate ant behaviour as a transmission strategy.
Conspicuous changes in the daily timing of disease phenotypes suggest that …

[HTML][HTML] Discovery of Gibellula floridensis from Infected Spiders and Analysis of the Surrounding Fungal Entomopathogen Community

RA Joseph, A Masoudi, MJ Valdiviezo, NO Keyhani - Journal of Fungi, 2024 - mdpi.com
Characterization of fungal spider pathogens lags far behind their insect counterparts. In
addition, little to nothing is known concerning the ecological reservoir and/or fungal …

Viral-and fungal-mediated behavioral manipulation of hosts: summit disease

A Masoudi, RA Joseph, NO Keyhani - Applied Microbiology and …, 2024 - Springer
Summit disease, in which infected hosts seek heights (gravitropism), first noted in modern
times by nineteenth-century naturalists, has been shown to be induced by disparate …