Evolution of entomopathogenicity in fungi
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Introduction and first principles
Whether the earliest fungi were pathogens or saprobes has been an intriguing mycological question (Savile, 1968). The resolution of which nutritional habit (i.e., which preferred source of nutrients) came first among the fungi remained speculative until the completion of a recent phylogenetic analysis of the fungi using synthesized sequence data from six genes from an extensive sampling from all major groups of fungi (James et al., 2006). In view of these new studies, whether the earliest fungi
Pathogenicity for insects
Even within the Hypocreales, the order with the largest number and diversity of fungal taxa attacking invertebrates, there is reason to believe that the entomopathogenic habit has multiple origins. The traditional concept of the family Clavicipitaceae (Hypocreales; e.g., Kobayasi, 1941, Rogerson, 1970, White et al., 2003) has always been problematic because it included both a large number and diversity of genera whose primary hosts are plants (Bischoff and White, 2003) as well as the
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