Over the past thirty years, since the dawn of metagenomic studies, a completely new (micro)
universe was revealed, with the potential to have profound impacts on many aspects of the …

Fungi are often inconspicuous in nature and this means it is all too easy to overlook their
importance. Often referred to as the “Forgotten Kingdom”, fungi are key components of life …

Wood decay mechanisms in Agaricomycotina have been traditionally separated in two
categories termed white and brown rot. Recently the accuracy of such a dichotomy has been …

Feeding on living or dead plant material is widespread in insects. Seminal work on termites
and aphids has provided profound insights into the critical nutritional role that microbes play …

Leaf‐cutter ants are a prominent feature in Neotropical ecosystems, but a comprehensive
assessment of their effects on ecosystem functions is lacking. We reviewed the literature and …

The attine ant–fungus agricultural symbiosis evolved over tens of millions of years,
producing complex societies with industrial-scale farming analogous to that of humans. Here …

One hundred and eleven strains of Basidiomycota, 39 strains of Ascomycota and 2 strains of
Mucoromycotina belonging to wood decomposers that cause white-rot (WR) or brown-rot …

The leaf-cutter ant fungal garden ecosystem is a naturally evolved model system for efficient
plant biomass degradation. Degradation processes mediated by the symbiotic fungus …

We present a novel method to measure the local GC-content bias in genomes and a survey
of published fungal species. The method, enacted as “OcculterCut”(https://sourceforge …

H 2 O 2 has been found to be required for the activity of the main microbial enzymes
responsible for lignin oxidative cleavage, peroxidases. Along with other small radicals, it is …