Based on sequence analyses of many different genes, the past decade has provided us with a profound knowledge of fungal systematics and phylogeny. In addition, a number of sequences of complete fungal genomes have been identified and several others will soon follow. In this volume, leading experts address questions concerning the origin of the fungal kingdom and fungal evolution at a level of analytical refinement that has never been possible before. The following major aspects are highlighted: evolutionary roots of fungi; evolution of signaling in fungi and fungal-like organisms; evolution of mutualistic systems and metabolism in fungi; and evolutionary mechanisms and trends.
Author(s): Martin Carr, Sandra L. Baldauf (auth.), Stefanie Pöggeler, Johannes Wöstemeyer (eds.)
Series: The Mycota volume 14
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 345
Tags: Evolutionary Biology; Plant Genetics & Genomics; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography; Developmental Biology
Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
1 The Protistan Origins of Animals and Fungi....Pages 3-23
2 Microsporidia – Highly Reduced and Derived Relatives of Fungi....Pages 25-36
3 Environmental DNA Analysis and the Expansion of the Fungal Tree of Life....Pages 37-54
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
4 Evolution of Signalling and Morphogenesis in the Dictyostelids....Pages 57-71
5 Function and Evolution of Pheromones and Pheromone Receptors in Filamentous Ascomycetes....Pages 73-96
6 Mating Type in Basidiomycetes: Unipolar, Bipolar, and Tetrapolar Patterns of Sexuality....Pages 97-160
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
7 Evolution of the ‘Plant-Symbiotic’ Fungal Phylum, Glomeromycota ....Pages 163-185
8 Fruiting Body Evolution in the Ascomycota: a Molecular Perspective Integrating Lichenized and Non-Lichenized Groups....Pages 187-204
9 Genomic and Comparative Analysis of the Class Dothideomycetes....Pages 205-229
10 Evolution of Genes for Secondary Metabolism in Fungi....Pages 231-255
11 Carbonic Anhydrases in Fungi and Fungal-Like Organisms – Functional Distribution and Evolution of a Gene Family....Pages 257-274
Front Matter....Pages 275-275
12 Evolution of Mating-Type Loci and Mating-Type Chromosomes in Model Species of Filamentous Ascomycetes....Pages 277-292
13 Evolution of Special Metabolism in Fungi: Concepts, Mechanisms, and Pathways....Pages 293-329
Back Matter....Pages 331-345
