Pushing the frontiers of biodiversity research: Unveiling the global diversity, distribution, and conservation of fungi

T Niskanen, R Lücking, A Dahlberg… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Fungi comprise approximately 20% of all eukaryotic species and are connected to virtually
all life forms on Earth. Yet, their diversity remains contentious, their distribution elusive, and …

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 …

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 …

Fungi in aquatic ecosystems

HP Grossart, S Van den Wyngaert, M Kagami… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Fungi are phylogenetically and functionally diverse ubiquitous components of almost all
ecosystems on Earth, including aquatic environments stretching from high montane lakes …

Current insights into fungal species diversity and perspective on naming the environmental DNA sequences of fungi

B Wu, M Hussain, W Zhang, M Stadler, X Liu, M **ang - Mycology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The global bio-diversity of fungi has been extensively investigated and their species number
has been estimated. Notably, the development of molecular phylogeny has revealed an …

Fungal evolution: major ecological adaptations and evolutionary transitions

MA Naranjo‐Ortiz, T Gabaldón - Biological Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Fungi are a highly diverse group of heterotrophic eukaryotes characterized by the absence
of phagotrophy and the presence of a chitinous cell wall. While unicellular fungi are far from …

[HTML][HTML] Divergent genomic trajectories predate the origin of animals and fungi

E Ocaña-Pallarès, TA Williams, D López-Escardó… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Animals and fungi have radically distinct morphologies, yet both evolved within the same
eukaryotic supergroup: Opisthokonta,. Here we reconstructed the trajectory of genetic …

Diploid-dominant life cycles characterize the early evolution of Fungi

KR Amses, DR Simmons… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Most of the described species in kingdom Fungi are contained in two phyla, the Ascomycota
and the Basidiomycota (subkingdom Dikarya). As a result, our understanding of the biology …

Phylogenomics of a new fungal phylum reveals multiple waves of reductive evolution across Holomycota

LJ Galindo, P López-García, G Torruella… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Compared to multicellular fungi and unicellular yeasts, unicellular fungi with free-living
flagellated stages (zoospores) remain poorly known and their phylogenetic position is often …

Genomic insights into the phylogeny and biomass-degrading enzymes of rumen ciliates

Z Li, X Wang, Y Zhang, Z Yu, T Zhang, X Dai… - The ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Understanding the biodiversity and genetics of gut microbiomes has important implications
for host physiology and industrial enzymes, whereas most studies have been focused on …