Variability in the way organisms reproduce raises numerous, and still unsolved, questions in
evolutionary biology. In this study, we emphasize that fungi deserve a much greater …

Fungi are the commonest pathogens of insects and crucial regulators of insect populations.
The rapid advance of genome technologies has revolutionized our understanding of …

Estimates of the number of arthropod species vary between 1,170,000 and 10 million,
accounting for over 80% of all known living animal species. One arthropod subgroup …

黑色羊肚菌支系(Elata Clade) 作为我国食用菌栽培行业近几年突飞猛进发展的一类真菌,
隶属于羊肚菌属(Morchella), 在国内备受关注, 具有重要的经济和科研价值 …

The basidiomycete smut fungus Ustilago hordei was previously shown to comprise isolates
that are avirulent on various barley host cultivars. Through genetic crosses we had revealed …

Significant progress has been made since the previous edition of The Mycota published in
2006. The most conspicuous advances have concerned firstly our understanding of the …

A large region of suppressed recombination surrounds the sex-determining locus of the self-
fertile fungus Neurospora tetrasperma. This region encompasses nearly one-fifth of the N …

Fungal genomes vary considerably in size and organization. The genome of Microsporidium
contains less than 3 Mb while the genomes of several Basidiomycetes and Ascomycetes …

In heterothallic basidiomycete fungi, sexual compatibility is restricted by mating types,
typically controlled by two loci: PR, encoding pheromone precursors and pheromone …

Ascomycete Cordyceps sensu lato consists of hundreds of species of fungi capable of
infecting different insects. Species of these fungi are either valued traditional Chinese …