Ascomycota: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Added information about penicillin and mentioned the size of the phylum. Apr 10, 2025
Add new Web site: American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science Advances - Genome-scale phylogeny and contrasting modes of genome evolution in the fungal phylum Ascomycota. Mar 14, 2025
Add new Web site: Nature - Nature Communications - Innovation and constraint leading to complex multicellularity in the Ascomycota. Dec 23, 2024
Add new Web site: Mustansiriyah University - Ascomycota. Oct 11, 2024
Add new Web site: Frontiers - Hesperomyces (Fungi, Ascomycota) associated with Hyperaspis ladybirds (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae): Rethinking host specificity. Jul 12, 2024
Add new Web site: ASM Journals - Microbiology Spectrum - Fungal Sex: The Ascomycota. Mar 15, 2024
Add new Web site: PNAS - Origin and evolution of carnivorism in the Ascomycota (fungi). Jan 29, 2024
Add new Web site: PNAS - Origin and evolution of carnivorism in the Ascomycota (fungi). Dec 09, 2023
Add new Web site: University of Arizona - College of Agriculture, Life and Enviromental Sciences - Ascomycota. Oct 03, 2023
Video added. May 31, 2023
Article revised. Mar 06, 2023
Add new Web site: University of Hawaii - Ascomycota. Sep 26, 2011
Added images of a tree affected by Dutch elm disease, of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and of rye affected by ergot. Apr 09, 2010
Changed name of chestnut blight fungus from Endothia parasitica to Cryphonectria parasitica. Changed species counts for Cordyceps from 100 to 400 and for Geoglossum from 22 to 80. Apr 09, 2010
Added new Web site: Tree of Life Project - Ascomycota. Jul 30, 2008
Article revised and updated. Jan 22, 2008
Article added to new online database. Jul 23, 1999
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