Computational analysis of fungal genomes revealed that some early-branching fungi use selenocysteine, the selenium-containing amino acid, that was thought to be missing from proteins in this lineage.
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Castellano, S. Selenium strikes back at fungi. Nat Microbiol 4, 726–727 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-019-0434-5
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