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Genomic adaptation: a fungal perspective

Nature Reviews Microbiology volume 6, pages 572–573 (2008)Cite this article

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This month's Genome Watch focuses on the genome sequences of several fungal species with distinct and varied lifestyles. These range from a saprophytic existence in dung to symbiotic mycorrhizal associations with plant roots to parasitism of grain. Analyses of the genome sequences reveal how evolution has played a crucial part in shaping the genetic make-up of these fungi to enable them to thrive within their microenvironments.

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Figure 1: Fruiting bodies of Laccaria bicolor colonizing seedlings of Douglas fir.

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  1. Arnab Pain and Christiane Hertz-Fowler are at the Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK. microbes@sanger.ac.uk,

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Entrez Genome Project

Fusarium graminearum

Laccaria bicolor

Neurospora crassa

Podospora anserina

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Trichoderma reesei

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Pain, A., Hertz-Fowler, C. Genomic adaptation: a fungal perspective. Nat Rev Microbiol 6, 572–573 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro1964

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