T. K. Arun Kumar

TL;DR: Comparative analyses of 31 fungal genomes suggest that lignin-degrading peroxidases expanded in the lineage leading to the ancestor of the Agaricomycetes, which is reconstructed as a white rot species, and then contracted in parallel lineages leading to brown rot and mycorrhizal species.

TL;DR: The Wallemiomycetes includes three species of molds from the genus Wallemia adapted to environments of high osmotic stress, contaminate various foods, cause respiratory disease, and control fungal infections.

TL;DR: Phylogenetic analyses of a 71-protein dataset support the position of Wallemia as the earliest diverging lineage of Agaricomycotina, which is confirmed by septal pore ultrastructure that shows the septAL pore apparatus as a variant of the Tremella-type.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the acceptance of DNA sequences alone as types of names of taxa, under the terms used in the current proposals, is unnecessary and would not solve the problem of naming putative taxa known only from DNA sequences in a scientifically defensible way.

TL;DR: The less differentiated nature of the spore discharge apparatus and septal pore organization supports an earliest diverging position of Orbiliomycetes within the subphylum, while the closed nuclear division and disk-shaped spindle pole body are interpreted as ancestral state characters for Ascomycota.