• Moreover, mt intergenic region can provide valuable phylogenetic information to study the biogeography of the fungus. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Resolving the evolutionary relationships among Fungi remains challenging because of their highly variable evolutionary rates, and lack of a close phylogenetic outgroup. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In this context, it is essential to determine the precise phylogenetic position of candidate protists that are close to Fungi, Metazoa, or opisthokonts as a whole. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In a more recent phylogenetic investigation with four nuclear gene sequences (EF-1α, HSP70, actin and β-tubulin), nucleariids associate confidently with Fungi, but only when selecting two slow-evolving chytridiomycetes [ 18 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Several gasteroid fungi-such as the stinkhorn, Phallus impudicus L.-were formally described by Carl Linnaeus in his original Species Plantarum of 1753, but the first critical treatment of the group was by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon in his Synopsis methodica fungorum of 1801. (wikipedia.org)
  • Elias Magnus Fries introduced the name Gasteromycetes for a class of fungi in his Systema Mycologicum of 1821, although (not using a microscope) he included many species of the Ascomycota (such as truffles) within the class. (wikipedia.org)
  • As is usually the case for most mitosporic fungi, morphological characters are inadequate for delimiting species within a genus and this creates a continuing demand of screening for additional taxonomic characters. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Sometimes these different morphs of a single fungus were formerly thought to be separate species. (eol.org)
  • While there have been many attempts to address the concept of species in the fungi, there are several concepts that have made taxonomic delimitation especially challenging. (frontiersin.org)
  • In this context, it seems noteworthy that Nuclearia and fungi other than chytrids are fast-evolving, and that the rate of tubulin evolution varies strongly among species of the latter dataset (correlating to some degree with the independent loss of the flagellar apparatus in non-chytrid fungi and in Nuclearia ). (biomedcentral.com)
  • During a two-decade long, ongoing survey of corticioid fungi from mainland China and Taiwan, we have found four new species of Aleurodiscus with echinulate basidiospores based on morphological characters. (pensoft.net)
  • A species of Thecaphora was collected in the flower heads of Anthemis chia ( Anthemideae , Asteraceae ) on Rhodes Island, Greece, in 2015 and 2017, which represents the first smut record of a smut fungus on a host plant species in this tribe. (pensoft.net)
  • Fungi inhabit an immense range of terrestrial and marine habitats and are highly diverse with up to 6.28 million species proposed to exist based on well-accepted non-parametric species estimators [ 2 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Some New Zealand secotioid fungi in the genus Leratiomyces are shaped and coloured like berries and their spores may be dispersed by ground-dwelling birds. (wikipedia.org)
  • The entomopathogenic fungi of the genus Beauveria are cosmopolitan with a variety of different insect hosts. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Peltigerales is an order of lichen -forming fungi belonging to the class Lecanoromycetes in the division Ascomycota . (eol.org)
  • Saccharomycopsis fibuligera (synonymous with Endomyces fibuligera ), a member of the subphylum Saccharomycotina of the phylum Ascomycota of the Fungi kingdom, is found worldwide as the major amylolytic yeast utilized in indigenous food fermentation using rice and cassava. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Fungi exhibit astonishing diversity with multiple major phenotypic transitions over the kingdom's evolutionary history. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The overall picture is one of a relatively small number of novel genes appearing at major evolutionary transitions in the phylogeny of fungi, with most arising de novo and horizontal gene transfer providing only a small additional source of evolutionary novelty. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In a more recent analysis based on nuclear ribosomal RNA and rpb2 genes (Sánchez-García et al. (doe.gov)
  • However, the nature of the genes encoded by eukaryotic protozoa and fungi within these environments has not been explored using metagenomic or metatranscriptomic approaches. (concordia.ca)
  • Prediction of taxonomy for marker gene sequences such as 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) is a fundamental task in microbiology. (peerj.com)
  • noted that "these fungi represent an heterogeneous assemblage, a mixture of forms which are derived from various lineages. (wikipedia.org)
  • By systematically analyzing 304 genomes from all major fungal groups, together with a broad range of eukaryotic outgroups, we have identified 188 novel orthogroups associated with major changes during the evolution of fungi. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Our findings contribute to an increasingly detailed portrait of the gene families that define fungal phyla and underpin core features of extant fungi. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The bird's nest fungi, which include the genera Cyathus and Crucibulum, form miniature, egg-like packets of spores within cup-shaped fruit bodies. (wikipedia.org)
  • As part of this process, fungi developed hyphae, adapted to land environments (terrestrialization), and innovated their sexual structures. (biomedcentral.com)
  • These changes also helped fungi establish ecological relationships with other organisms (animals and plants), but the genomic basis of these changes remains largely unknown. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Most gasteroid fungi are saprotrophic, living on dead plant material, including very rotten, fallen wood. (wikipedia.org)
  • These smut fungi produce yellowish-brown to reddish-brown masses of spore balls in specific, mostly regenerative, plant organs. (pensoft.net)
  • The gasteroid fungi form visibly diverse fruit bodies, but in all cases the spores are formed and reach maturity internally. (wikipedia.org)
  • The fungi form lichens in a symbiotic relationship with one or two photosynthetic partners which may be a cyanobacterium such as Nostoc or a green alga such as Coccomyxa . (eol.org)
  • Roles of diverse fungi in larch needle litter decomposition. (doe.gov)
  • Until 1981, this book was the starting point for the naming of Gasteromycetes under the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants. (wikipedia.org)
  • Nucleariids lack distinctive morphological features that might allow associating them with either animals or fungi. (biomedcentral.com)
  • they] can be collectively referred to as gasteroid fungi, but they cannot be classified as a single group. (wikipedia.org)
  • Members of the Cryptomycota have been found in fresh water, soil, sediment, and some marine habitats [ 9 ], indicating that the earliest diverging fungi were likely already adapted to both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. (biomedcentral.com)
  • literally "stomach fungi"), or the equally obsolete order Gasteromycetales Rea, because they produce spores inside their basidiocarps (fruit bodies) rather than on an outer surface. (wikipedia.org)
  • The combination of molecular phylogeny with criteria of geographic and climatic origin showed for the first time in entomopathogenic fungi, that the B. bassiana s. l . can be subdivided into seven clusters with common climate characteristics. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This study indicates that mt genomes and in particular intergenic regions provide molecular phylogeny tools that combined with criteria of geographic and climatic origin can subdivide the B. bassiana s.l. entomopathogenic fungi into seven clusters with common climate characteristics. (biomedcentral.com)