Amelia E. Barber

Abstract Chemical innovation is essential for fungi to adapt to ever-changing ecological environments. However, the environmental and evolutionary drivers of fungal metabolic differentiation remain ambiguous. Here, we show the phylogeographic diversity of 1052 Aspergillus flavus strains across four continents, as conducted through phylogenetic and biogeographical analysis, including 544 newly sequenced strains from China.

Abstract Aspergillus flavus is a clinically and agriculturally important saprotrophic fungus responsible for severe human infections and extensive crop losses. Here, we analyze genomic data from 300 (117 clinical and 183 environmental) A. flavus isolates from 13 countries, including 82 clinical isolates sequenced in this study, to examine population and pan-genome structure and their relationship to pathogenicity.

Abstract Aspergillus fumigatus accounts for approximately 65% of all invasive fungal infections in humans, with mortality rates from aspergillosis approaching 50%. Fungal virulence in plant pathogenic fungi can be modulated by viruses that infect fungi, also known as mycoviruses. However, their impact on fungal pathogenesis in mammals has remained largely unexplored. Here, utilizing an A. fumigatus strain naturally infected with the double-stranded RNA virus, A.