Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Comparative genomics reveals the origin of fungal hyphae and multicellularity

  • Enikő Kiss,
  • Botond Hegedüs,
  • Máté Virágh,
  • Torda Varga,
  • Zsolt Merényi,
  • Tamás Kószó,
  • Balázs Bálint,
  • Arun N. Prasanna,
  • Krisztina Krizsán,
  • Sándor Kocsubé,
  • Meritxell Riquelme,
  • Norio Takeshita,
  • László G. Nagy

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12085-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Hyphae are a major innovation in fungi associated with transitions to multicellularity. Here, Kiss and colleagues use comparative genomic analyses to reconstruct the evolutionary origins of hyphae and the molecular evolution of hypha morphogenesis genes.