Open AccessEvolutionary Morphogenesis of Sexual Fruiting Bodies in Basidiomycota: Toward a New Evo-Devo Synthesis
Author(s) -
Máté Virágh,
Zsolt Merényi,
Árpád Csernetics,
Csenge Földi,
Niranjan P. Sahu,
Xiaobin Liu,
David S. Hibbett,
László G. Nagy
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
microbiology and molecular biology reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.358
H-Index - 247
eISSN - 1098-5557
pISSN - 1092-2172
DOI - 10.1128/mmbr.00019-21
Subject(s) - biology , evolutionary developmental biology , phylogenetic tree , evolutionary biology , phylogenetics , basidiomycota , convergent evolution , botany , gene , genetics
The development of sexual fruiting bodies is one of the most complex morphogenetic processes in fungi. Mycologists have long been fascinated by the morphological and developmental diversity of fruiting bodies; however, evolutionary developmental biology of fungi still lags significantly behind that of animals or plants.