Mycopathologia has a long tradition of publishing important studies on the dermatophytic fungi and dermatophytoses. Nearly 300 articles have appeared in the journal over 60 years starting with the 1939 case report by the pioneering medical mycologist Emmons [1] on simian dermatophytoses due to Trichophyton mentagrophytes. Intermittently, other notable articles focused on the classification, clinical disease, natural history, and geography of this group of pathogenic fungi [2–6]. The two most noteworthy articles among these excellent publications were by Ajello and Georg [7] on in vitro hair perforation test for differentiation of Trichophyton, and by Nishio et al. [8] on the use of mitochondrial DNA analysis for the phylogeny of Trichophyton. These articles have been cited more than 100 times in peer-reviewed publications, and citation records of many other articles are equally impressive. Two of us (JPB and BM) have tried to capture the spirit of this tradition by putting together thi ...