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 …

Malassezia are lipid dependent basidiomycetous yeasts that inhabit the skin and mucosa of
humans and other warm-blooded animals, and are a major component of the skin …

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is an important evolutionary force sha** prokaryotic and
eukaryotic genomes. HGT-acquired genes have been sporadically reported in insects, a …

Budding yeasts (subphylum Saccharomycotina) are found in every biome and are as
genetically diverse as plants or animals. To understand budding yeast evolution, we …

The question of how phenotypic and genomic complexity are inter‐related and how they are
shaped through evolution is a central question in biology that historically has been …

Background Microbial eukaryotes are found alongside bacteria and archaea in natural
microbial systems, including host-associated microbiomes. While microbial eukaryotes are …

Operons are a hallmark of bacterial genomes, where they allow concerted expression of
functionally related genes as single polycistronic transcripts. They are rare in eukaryotes …

The short‐lived hydrophobic gas nitric oxide (NO) is a broadly conserved signaling molecule
in all domains of life, including the ubiquitous and versatile filamentous fungi (molds) …

Lithospermum erythrorhizon (red gromwell; zicao) is a medicinal and economically valuable
plant belonging to the Boraginaceae family. Roots from L. erythrorhizon have been used for …

As the closest extant sister group to seed plants, ferns are an important reference point to
study the origin and evolution of plant genes and traits. One bottleneck to the use of ferns in …