Fungi form a major and diverse component of most ecosystems on Earth. They are both
micro and macroorganisms with high and varying functional diversity as well as great …

Over 600 million years ago, animals evolved from a unicellular or colonial organism whose
cell (s) captured bacteria with a collar complex, a flagellum surrounded by a microvillar …

Fungi and mammals share a co-evolutionary history and are involved in a complex web of
interactions. Studies focused on commensal bacteria suggest that pathological changes in …

Animals and fungi have radically distinct morphologies, yet both evolved within the same
eukaryotic supergroup: Opisthokonta,. Here we reconstructed the trajectory of genetic …

There were multiple prerequisites to the evolution of multicellular animal life, including the
generation of multiple cell fates (" cellular diversity") and their patterned spatial arrangement …

How animals evolved from a single-celled ancestor, transitioning from a unicellular lifestyle
to a coordinated multicellular entity, remains a fascinating question. Key events in this …

The use of some multiple-sequence alignments in phylogenetic analysis, particularly those
that are not very well conserved, requires the elimination of poorly aligned positions and …

Many fungi are pathogenic on plants and cause significant damage in agriculture and
forestry. They are also part of the natural ecosystem and may play a role in regulating plant …

A revised six-kingdom system of life is presented, down to the level of infraphylum. As in my
1983 system Bacteria are treated as a single kingdom, and eukaryotes are divided into only …

Sequences and available structures were compared for all the widely distributed
representatives of the P-loop GTPases and GTPase-related proteins with the aim of …