Background The global burden of invasive fungal infections (IFIs) has shown an upsurge in
recent years due to the higher load of immunocompromised patients suffering from various …

DNA barcoding is a powerful taxonomic tool to identify and discover species. DNA
barcoding utilizes one or more standardized short DNA regions for taxon identification. With …

True fungi (Fungi) and fungus-like organisms (eg Mycetozoa, Oomycota) constitute the
second largest group of organisms based on global richness estimates, with around 3 …

This is the opening paper in the special issue of Fungal Diversity, which collates the data on
defining species. Defining and recognizing species has long been a controversial issue …

Fungi are major ecological players in both terrestrial and aquatic environments by cycling
organic matter and channelling nutrients across trophic levels. High-throughput sequencing …

Modern taxonomy has developed towards the establishment of global authoritative lists of
species that assume the standardized principles of species recognition, at least in a given …

Species identification lies at the heart of biodiversity studies that has in recent years
favoured DNA-based approaches. Microbial Biological Resource Centres are a rich source …

Fungi are morphologically, ecologically, metabolically, and phylogenetically diverse. They
are known to produce numerous bioactive molecules, which makes them very useful for …

The gut microbiota is a dense and diverse ecosystem that is involved in many physiological
functions as well as in disease pathogenesis. It is dominated by bacteria, which have been …

Type and reference strains of members of the onygenalean family Arthrodermataceae have
been sequenced for rDNA ITS and partial LSU, the ribosomal 60S protein, and fragments of …