Challenging and attractive, comprehensive yet succinct, Essential Fungal Genetics was written to provide readers with the tools necessary to integrate fungal genetics into any number of general genetics, microbiology, mycology, and organismal biology courses by complementing the major graduate and undergraduate texts. Essential Fungal Genetics incorporates all aspects of eukaryote genetics appropriate to fungi, described here in an easily understood and remembered manner. The authors have taken an instructional "how-to" approach that will prove valuable for anyone wishing to start genetic analysis of any fungus. Rather than repeating "laboratory recipes," the authors strive to focus on the critical underlying concepts of fungal genetics, to maintain a readable style of presentation, and to provide a broad range of reference materials.