Search Results - "Nagy, László G"
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Complex multicellularity in fungi: evolutionary convergence, single origin, or both?
Published in Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (01-11-2018)“…ABSTRACT Complex multicellularity represents the most advanced level of biological organization and it has evolved only a few times: in metazoans, green…”
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Fruiting body form, not nutritional mode, is the major driver of diversification in mushroom-forming fungi
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (22-12-2020)“…With ∼36,000 described species, Agaricomycetes are among the most successful groups of Fungi. Agaricomycetes display great diversity in fruiting body forms and…”
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Comparative genomics provides insights into the lifestyle and reveals functional heterogeneity of dark septate endophytic fungi
Published in Scientific reports (20-04-2018)“…Dark septate endophytes (DSE) are a form-group of root endophytic fungi with elusive functions. Here, the genomes of two common DSE of semiarid areas,…”
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Many roads to convergence
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (13-07-2018)“…Plant genomes highlight complex mechanisms behind evolutionary convergence Many plants form specialized symbiotic root structures, called nodules, that harbor…”
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Comparative genomics reveals the origin of fungal hyphae and multicellularity
Published in Nature communications (09-09-2019)“…Hyphae represent a hallmark structure of multicellular fungi. The evolutionary origins of hyphae and of the underlying genes are, however, hardly known. By…”
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Novel phylogenetic methods are needed for understanding gene function in the era of mega-scale genome sequencing
Published in Nucleic acids research (18-03-2020)“…Abstract Ongoing large-scale genome sequencing projects are forecasting a data deluge that will almost certainly overwhelm current analytical capabilities of…”
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Re-mind the gap! Insertion - deletion data reveal neglected phylogenetic potential of the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) of fungi
Published in PloS one (19-11-2012)“…Rapidly evolving, indel-rich phylogenetic markers play a pivotal role in our understanding of the relationships at multiple levels of the tree of life. There…”
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Armillaria
Published in Current biology (02-04-2018)“…Lingering in forests around the world, some of the largest and oldest terrestrial organisms on earth hide in plain sight. In this Quick Guide, Sipos et al…”
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Genetic Bases of Fungal White Rot Wood Decay Predicted by Phylogenomic Analysis of Correlated Gene-Phenotype Evolution
Published in Molecular biology and evolution (01-01-2017)“…Fungal decomposition of plant cell walls (PCW) is a complex process that has diverse industrial applications and huge impacts on the carbon cycle. White rot…”
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ContScout: sensitive detection and removal of contamination from annotated genomes
Published in Nature communications (31-01-2024)“…Contamination of genomes is an increasingly recognized problem affecting several downstream applications, from comparative evolutionary genomics to…”
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Evolutionary Morphogenesis of Sexual Fruiting Bodies in Basidiomycota: Toward a New Evo-Devo Synthesis
Published in Microbiology and molecular biology reviews (16-03-2022)“…The development of sexual fruiting bodies is one of the most complex morphogenetic processes in fungi. Mycologists have long been fascinated by the…”
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Mycology: Rediscovery of a lost model fungus highlights the origin of mycorrhizal symbioses
Published in Current biology (12-04-2021)“…Arbuscular mycorrhizae (AM) are the most frequent symbioses of land plants. By reisolating a long-lost fungus from nature, a new study cracks the genomics of…”
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Evolutionary transition to the ectomycorrhizal habit in the genomes of a hyperdiverse lineage of mushroom‐forming fungi
Published in The New phytologist (01-03-2022)“…Summary The ectomycorrhizal (ECM) symbiosis has independently evolved from diverse types of saprotrophic ancestors. In this study, we seek to identify genomic…”
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Transcriptome data reveal conserved patterns of fruiting body development and response to heat stress in the mushroom-forming fungus Flammulina filiformis
Published in PloS one (16-10-2020)“…Mushroom-forming fungi are complex multicellular organisms that form the basis of a large industry, yet, our understanding of the mechanisms of mushroom…”
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Latent homology and convergent regulatory evolution underlies the repeated emergence of yeasts
Published in Nature communications (18-07-2014)“…Convergent evolution is common throughout the tree of life, but the molecular mechanisms causing similar phenotypes to appear repeatedly are obscure. Yeasts…”
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Gene family expansions and transcriptome signatures uncover fungal adaptations to wood decay
Published in Environmental microbiology (01-10-2021)“…Summary Because they comprise some of the most efficient wood‐decayers, Polyporales fungi impact carbon cycling in forest environment. Despite continuous…”
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Understanding the Evolutionary Processes of Fungal Fruiting Bodies: Correlated Evolution and Divergence Times in the Psathyrellaceae
Published in Systematic biology (01-05-2011)“…Fruiting body evolution is one of the central topics in fungal evolutionary biology. A number of hypotheses have been developed to explain the contemporary…”
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Evolutionary innovations through gain and loss of genes in the ectomycorrhizal Boletales
Published in The New phytologist (01-02-2022)“…Summary We aimed to identify genomic traits of transitions to ectomycorrhizal ecology within the Boletales by comparing the genomes of 21 symbiotrophic species…”
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Unmatched Level of Molecular Convergence among Deeply Divergent Complex Multicellular Fungi
Published in Molecular biology and evolution (01-08-2020)“…Convergent evolution is pervasive in nature, but it is poorly understood how various constraints and natural selection limit the diversity of evolvable…”
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Evolution of opposing regulatory interactions underlies the emergence of eukaryotic cell cycle checkpoints
Published in Scientific reports (27-05-2021)“…In eukaryotes the entry into mitosis is initiated by activation of cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs), which in turn activate a large number of protein kinases to…”
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