Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

Large-scale genome sequencing of mycorrhizal fungi provides insights into the early evolution of symbiotic traits

  • Shingo Miyauchi,
  • Enikő Kiss,
  • Alan Kuo,
  • Elodie Drula,
  • Annegret Kohler,
  • Marisol Sánchez-García,
  • Emmanuelle Morin,
  • Bill Andreopoulos,
  • Kerrie W. Barry,
  • Gregory Bonito,
  • Marc Buée,
  • Akiko Carver,
  • Cindy Chen,
  • Nicolas Cichocki,
  • Alicia Clum,
  • David Culley,
  • Pedro W. Crous,
  • Laure Fauchery,
  • Mariangela Girlanda,
  • Richard D. Hayes,
  • Zsófia Kéri,
  • Kurt LaButti,
  • Anna Lipzen,
  • Vincent Lombard,
  • Jon Magnuson,
  • François Maillard,
  • Claude Murat,
  • Matt Nolan,
  • Robin A. Ohm,
  • Jasmyn Pangilinan,
  • Maíra de Freitas Pereira,
  • Silvia Perotto,
  • Martina Peter,
  • Stephanie Pfister,
  • Robert Riley,
  • Yaron Sitrit,
  • J. Benjamin Stielow,
  • Gergely Szöllősi,
  • Lucia Žifčáková,
  • Martina Štursová,
  • Joseph W. Spatafora,
  • Leho Tedersoo,
  • Lu-Min Vaario,
  • Akiyoshi Yamada,
  • Mi Yan,
  • Pengfei Wang,
  • Jianping Xu,
  • Tom Bruns,
  • Petr Baldrian,
  • Rytas Vilgalys,
  • Christophe Dunand,
  • Bernard Henrissat,
  • Igor V. Grigoriev,
  • David Hibbett,
  • László G. Nagy,
  • Francis M. Martin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18795-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Mycorrhizal symbioses have evolved repeatedly in diverse fungal lineages. A large phylogenomic analysis sheds light on genomic changes associated with transitions from saprotrophy to symbiosis, including divergent genetic innovations underlying the convergent origins of the ectomycorrhizal guild.