Evolution of Fungi and Fungal-Like Organisms

ISBN-13: 9783031291982 / Angielski

Stefanie Pöggeler; Timothy James

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Sequence analyses of numerous fungal genomes over the past two decades have provided us with extensive insights into the phylogenetic relationships of fungi and the distribution of genes and their inferred functions, across the fungal kingdom. It is now possible to answer questions about the origin of the fungal kingdom and fungal evolution with an analytical precision that was not possible before.This fully revised and updated 2nd edition of The Mycota, Vol. 14, addresses major aspects of fungal evolution. The book is divided into four sections covering the following main topics:• Evolutionary roots of fungi
• Evolution of pathogenic strategies
• Evolution of mutualistic interactions
• Evolution of metabolism and development in fungiFungi are among the oldest eukaryotic groups in the living world. The aim of this book is to better understand the history and importance of fungi, as well as the characteristics that distinguish them from their sister group, the metazoans, and other fungus-like groups such as the slime molds and oomycetes. Many fungal species are important pathogens of animals and plants and have distinct but parallel pathogenicity strategies. Mutualistic interactions of fungi with other organisms are crucial for their survival in different ecological niches and have a great influence on their evolution and the design of their genomes. Metabolism is one of the most important features of life, and the diversity of metabolic processes is best understood by considering evolution. Studies of fungal metabolism have traditionally focused on metabolites of particular interest, namely mycotoxins, pathogenicity factors, antibiotics, and other compounds with interspecific activity. 
This volume will be of great interest to mycologists, evolutionary biologists, and fungal geneticists, as well as to lecturers and students of microbiology and mycology.

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Evolutionary roots of fungi

*Martin Carr* (M.Carr@hud.ac.uk) University of Huddersfield , GB 

The protistan origins of animals and fungi

*Christina Schilde* (C.Schilde@dundee.ac.uk) University of Dundee, College of Life Sciences, GB

Evolution of signalling and morphogenesis in the Dictyostelids

*Brandon Hassett (brandon.hassett@uit.no), UiT - The Arctic University of Norway

Marine chytrids [or fungi]: their diversity and ecological roles 

*Vassili N. Kouvelis (kouvelis@biol.uoa.gr), Dept. Genetics & Biotechnology 

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Mitochondrial genome evolution in fungal lineages

*Kensuke Seto (kseto@umich.edu), Department of Ecol. And Evol. Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

Aphelids: what their traits tell us about the early evolution of fungi 

Evolution of pathogenic strategies

*Soo Chan Lee (Soochan.Lee@utsa.edu), University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Role of dimorphism in pathogenicity of Mucoralean fungi

*Daniel Croll (daniel.croll@unine.ch), University of Neuchâtel,CH

The genomic architecture of pathogen genomes 

*Marco Thines (Thines@bio.uni-frankfurt.de), Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Goethe University, Germany 

Host switching and geographic expansions in plant pathogens

Evolution of mutualistic interactions

*Jillian Myers (jimyers@umich.edu), Tim James. University of Michigan, USA

Mycoviruses

Jessie Uehling (uehlinje@oregonstate.edu), Oregon State University; USA

Endohyphal bacteria of Mucoromycota and their extended phenotypes

Toby Spribille (spribill@ualberta.ca), University of Alberta, CA

What’s in a lichen? Unraveling the complex symbioses in lichen thalli

Falk Hillmann (Falk.hillmann@leibniz-hki.de), Hans Knöll Institute (HKI), Jena, Germany.

Fungi and environmental phagocytic predators

Petr Baldrian (baldrian@biomed.cas.cz), Institute of Microbiology of the CAS, Prague, Czech Republic

Global fungal diversity estimated from high throughput sequencing
Matthew Smith (trufflesmith@ufl.edu), Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida; USA;

Biogeography and symbiosis in southern hemisphere mycorrhizal fungi

Evolution of metabolism in fungi

Christine Schimek* (christine.schimek@mobile-university.de) , SRH Fernhochschule – The Mobile University Kirchstraße 2688499 Riedlingen, Germany

Evolution of Special Metabolism in Fungi: Concepts, Mechanisms, and Pathways

Axel Brakhage (axel.brakhage@hki-jena.de), Hans Knöll Institute (HKI), Jena, Germany.

Induction of silent fungal gene clusters

Isheng Jason Tsai (ijtsai@sinica.edu.tw), Biodiversity research center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Evolution of bioluminescence in mushrooms 

Antonis Rokas (antonis.rokas@vanderbilt.edu), Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, U.S.A.

Evolution on secondary metabolism in Aspergilli 

O autorze

Stefanie Pöggeler (born 1963) studied Biology at the Ruhr-Universität in Bochum (Germany). In 1993, she graduated with a thesis on intron-encoded polypeptides in plastids and mitochondria under the supervision of Prof. Ulrich Kück. She later on completed her “Habilitation” at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in 2000 and was awarded the Venia Legendi in Botany. Between 2001 and 2003 she had a stand-in assistant professorship in Botany at the Wilhelms Universität in Münster (Germany). In 2006 she was appointed as professor for Genetics of Eukaryotic Microorganisms at the Georg-August Universität Göttingen (Germany).
Her work is focused on the analysis of mating type genes and autophagy in sexual development of filamentous ascomycetes. In a second line of research, she is interested in the evolution of fungal inteins.

Timothy Y. James (born 1973) studied Biology at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina (United States of America) in the lab of Prof. Rytas Vilgalys. He graduate in 2003 with a thesis on the evolution of mating-type genes in mushroom forming fungi. He completed postdoctoral fellowships at Duke University, Uppsala University (Sweden), and McMaster University (Canada) before starting as an assistant professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan (U.S.A.). He is the Curator of Fungi at the University of Michigan Fungarium (MICH) and is the Lewis E. Wehmeyer and Elaine Prince Wehmeyer Chair in Fungal Taxonomy. His work is focused on resolving the fungal tree of life, in particular discovering the hidden phylogenetic diversity of the tree by analysis of zoosporic and unculturable lineages of fungi. He is also interested in the evolution of ploidy and mitotic recombination.