ReviewMicrobiology spectrum2017
What Defines the "Kingdom" Fungi?
Review in Microbiology spectrum, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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42 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Harnessing plant-microbe interactions: strategies for enhancing resilience and nutrient acquisition for sustainable agriculture.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Pooled it
- The Origin and Early Evolution of Fungi: Challenges, Inferences, and Principles.Annual review of cell and developmental biology · 2026Review
- Neurosarcoidosis as an elusive mimicker of infection and neoplasia: a case report.Journal of neurology · 2026Article
- Comprehensive analysis of small GTPases in Microsporidia reveals new extremes in eukaryotic cell biology.BMC biology · 2026Article
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- Non-Dikarya Fungal Clades Are Everywhere: What 18S rRNA Gene Metabarcoding Reveals About Cross-System Distribution of Fungi.Microbial ecology · 2025Article
- The chitin synthase regulator CSR-3 promotes cellular integrity during cell-cell fusion in the filamentous ascomycete fungus Neurospora crassa.PLoS genetics · 2025Article
- The Fungal Kingdom as a Rosetta Stone for biological discovery.Current biology : CB · 2025Article
- Reconstructing the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes.PLoS biology · 2024Review
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- Guest edited collection: fungal evolution and diversity.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- To the Origin of Fungi: Analysis of MFS Transporters of First AssembledJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Genomes of fungi and relatives reveal delayed loss of ancestral gene families and evolution of key fungal traits.Nature ecology & evolution · 2023Article
- Clinical manifestations and immune response to tuberculosis.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2023Review
- How Deep Can the Endophytic Mycobiome Go? A Case Study on Six Woody Species from the Brazilian Cerrado.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Divergent Evolution of Early Terrestrial Fungi Reveals the Evolution of Mucormycosis Pathogenicity Factors.Genome biology and evolution · 2023Article
- Exploring the Mycovirus Universe: Identification, Diversity, and Biotechnological Applications.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Fungal names: a comprehensive nomenclatural repository and knowledge base for fungal taxonomy.Nucleic acids research · 2023Article
- Fungal taxonomy: current status and research agendas for the interdisciplinary and globalisation era.Mycology · 2023Review
- Secondary Metabolites Diversity ofBiomolecules · 2022Review
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Abstract
The application of environmental DNA techniques and increased genome sequencing of microbial diversity, combined with detailed study of cellular characters, has consistently led to the reexamination of our understanding of the tree of life. This has challenged many of the definitions of taxonomic groups, especially higher taxonomic ranks such as eukaryotic kingdoms. The Fungi is an example of a kingdom which, together with the features that define it and the taxa that are grouped within it, has been in a continual state of flux. In this article we aim to summarize multiple lines of data pertinent to understanding the early evolution and definition of the Fungi. These include ongoing cellular and genomic comparisons that, we will argue, have generally undermined all attempts to identify a synapomorphic trait that defines the Fungi. This article will also summarize ongoing work focusing on taxon discovery, combined with phylogenomic analysis, which has identified novel groups that lie proximate/adjacent to the fungal clade-wherever the boundary that defines the Fungi may be. Our hope is that, by summarizing these data in the form of a discussion, we can illustrate the ongoing efforts to understand what drove the evolutionary diversification of fungi.
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