Fungal Associations

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Fungi are associated with a wide variety of other organisms. Ecologist Peter Price has said, “mutualism facilitates adaptive radiation,” and many biologists attribute Earth’s great fungal diversity to such associations. The 3rd edition of The Mycota, Vol. 9: Fungal Associations, has been revised to provide entirely new coverage of fungi and associated organisms in fourteen informative discussions that take advantage of today’s large public databases and modern molecular and data analysis methods. The editors have a keen interest in fungal associations in their own research, and their perspectives from different generations have resulted in an interesting treatment of the subject. 

Fungal Associations includes updates of classic topics, but also introduces less frequently discussed associations and broader reflections on the nature of fungi and their associates.

• The volume begins with a look at more than a billionyears of fungal evolution and associations through the lens of immunology.
• Can fungi involved in obligate symbioses be cultivated apart from the host? Genomes help to answer the question. 
• The ultimate intimacy between fungi and certain unrelated organisms has resulted in DNA exchange that can be traced in extant genomes. 
• Fungi and bacteria use volatile compounds to lure participants into interactions. 
• Some viruses modify the phenotype of their fungal hosts and affect host fitness.  
• Details of interactions between classical examples of fungus—plant symbioses (lichens, several types of mycorrhizae, and toxic endophytes) benefit from advanced microscopic and molecular techniques. 
• Discussions of fungi associated with insects (entomopathogens, a Drosophila model to study entomopathogens), nematode-trapping fungi and their prey, and a group of termite-associated fungi that produce secondary metabolites with potential uses as pharmaceuticals, complete the volume. 

 Fungal Associations is a well-illustrated, thought-provoking resource for specialists and generalists, including researchers, lecturers, and students interested in ecology, evolution, microbiology, and mycology. The volume would be an excellent text for a seminar course for advanced undergraduate or graduate students.

Fungi are associated with a wide variety of other organisms. Ecologist Peter Price has said, “mutualism facilitates adaptive radiation,” and many biologists attribute Earth’s great fungal diversity to such associations. The 3rd edition of The Mycota, Vol. 9: Fungal Associations, has been revised to provide entirely new coverage of fungi and associated organisms in fourteen informative discussions that take advantage of today’s large public databases and modern molecular and data analysis methods. The editors have a keen interest in fungal associations in their own research, and their perspectives from different generations have resulted in an interesting treatment of the subject. 

Fungal Associations includes updates of classic topics, but also introduces less frequently discussed associations and broader reflections on the nature of fungi and their associates.

• The volume begins with a look at more than abillion years of fungal evolution and associations through the lens of immunology.
• Can fungi involved in obligate symbioses be cultivated apart from the host? Genomes help to answer the question. 
• The ultimate intimacy between fungi and certain unrelated organisms has resulted in DNA exchange that can be traced in extant genomes. 
• Fungi and bacteria use volatile compounds to lure participants into interactions. 
• Some viruses modify the phenotype of their fungal hosts and affect host fitness.  
• Details of interactions between classical examples of fungus—plant symbioses (lichens, several types of mycorrhizae, and toxic endophytes) benefit from advanced microscopic and molecular techniques.
• Discussions of fungi associated with insects (entomopathogens, a Drosophila model to study entomopathogens), nematode-trappingfungi and their prey, and a group of termite-associated fungi that produce secondary metabolites with potential uses as pharmaceuticals, complete the volume. 

Fungal Associations is a well-illustrated, thought-provoking resource for specialists and generalists, including researchers, lecturers, and students interested in ecology, evolution, microbiology, and mycology. The volume would be an excellent text for a seminar course for advanced undergraduate or graduate students.

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Yen-Ping Hsueh

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Entomopathogenic Fungi Epichloë Fungal Endophytes Fungal Associations Fungal Cultivation by Ants Lichen Symbioses Fungal Interactions Microbial Symbionts Mycobiont Mycoparasitic Fungi Nematode-trapping Fungi Parasitic Fungi Photobiont RNA Editing in Fungi Symbiotic Fungi Xylaria Sclerotia

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“This is not simply an update of the same topics … but a collection of 14 authoritative reviews of additional topics in the general area of fungal associations that have mostly come to the fore since the last edition. ... It is pleasing to see The Mycota series being continued and new editions of the volumes released despite the passing of its founding editor, Karl Esser (1924–2019), and that the standards of excellence he set are being maintained.” (Fungal Biology Reviews, Vol. 50, December, 2024)

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