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Invasive Californian death caps develop mushrooms unisexually and bisexually.
Wang YW, McKeon MC, Elmore H, Hess J, Golan J, Gage H, Mao W, Harrow L, Gonçalves SC, Hull CM, Pringle A. Invasive Californian death caps develop mushrooms unisexually and bisexually. Nat Commun 2023, 14: 6560. PMID: 37875491, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42317-z.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchDe Novo Gene Birth, Horizontal Gene Transfer, and Gene Duplication as Sources of New Gene Families Associated with the Origin of Symbiosis in Amanita.
Wang YW, Hess J, Slot JC, Pringle A. De Novo Gene Birth, Horizontal Gene Transfer, and Gene Duplication as Sources of New Gene Families Associated with the Origin of Symbiosis in Amanita. Genome Biol Evol 2020, 12: 2168-2182. PMID: 32926145, DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evaa193.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchKIMGENS: a novel method to estimate kinship in organisms with mixed haploid diploid genetic systems robust to population structure.
Wang YW, Ané C. KIMGENS: a novel method to estimate kinship in organisms with mixed haploid diploid genetic systems robust to population structure. Bioinformatics 2022, 38: 3044-3050. PMID: 35482481, DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac293.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchUniparental Inheritance and Recombination as Strategies to Avoid Competition and Combat Muller's Ratchet among Mitochondria in Natural Populations of the Fungus Amanita phalloides.
Wang YW, Elmore H, Pringle A. Uniparental Inheritance and Recombination as Strategies to Avoid Competition and Combat Muller's Ratchet among Mitochondria in Natural Populations of the Fungus Amanita phalloides. J Fungi (Basel) 2023, 9 PMID: 37108928, DOI: 10.3390/jof9040476.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchOrigins of lineage‐specific elements via gene duplication, relocation, and regional rearrangement in Neurospora crassa
Wang Z, Wang Y, Kasuga T, Hassler H, Lopez‐Giraldez F, Dong C, Yarden O, Townsend J. Origins of lineage‐specific elements via gene duplication, relocation, and regional rearrangement in Neurospora crassa. Molecular Ecology 2023 PMID: 37843462, DOI: 10.1111/mec.17168.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchLineage-specific genesGene duplicationNew genesLineage-specific elementsWeighted gene correlation network analysisRecent gene duplicationNon-coding DNACell wall integrityCo-regulatory modulesGene correlation network analysisNon-coding sequencesCorrelation network analysisAntifungal toxinsGene syntenyNeurospora speciesGenus NeurosporaEvolutionary biologistsSuch cladesRegulatory machinerySequence repeatsModel speciesAncestral statusNeurospora crassaTranscriptomic dataDiverse functionsPangenomics of the death cap mushroom Amanita phalloides, and of Agaricales, reveals dynamic evolution of toxin genes in an invasive range.
Drott MT, Park SC, Wang YW, Harrow L, Keller NP, Pringle A. Pangenomics of the death cap mushroom Amanita phalloides, and of Agaricales, reveals dynamic evolution of toxin genes in an invasive range. ISME J 2023, 17: 1236-1246. PMID: 37221394, DOI: 10.1038/s41396-023-01432-x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEvolutionary history of plant hosts and fungal symbionts predicts the strength of mycorrhizal mutualism.
Hoeksema JD, Bever JD, Chakraborty S, Chaudhary VB, Gardes M, Gehring CA, Hart MM, Housworth EA, Kaonongbua W, Klironomos JN, Lajeunesse MJ, Meadow J, Milligan BG, Piculell BJ, Pringle A, Rúa MA, Umbanhowar J, Viechtbauer W, Wang YW, Wilson GWT, Zee PC. Evolutionary history of plant hosts and fungal symbionts predicts the strength of mycorrhizal mutualism. Commun Biol 2018, 1: 116. PMID: 30271996, DOI: 10.1038/s42003-018-0120-9.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEvaluation of an Epitypified Ophiocordyceps formosana (Cordyceps s.l.) for Its Pharmacological Potential.
Wang YW, Hong TW, Tai YL, Wang YJ, Tsai SH, Lien PT, Chou TH, Lai JY, Chu R, Ding ST, Irie K, Li TK, Tzean SS, Shen TL. Evaluation of an Epitypified Ophiocordyceps formosana (Cordyceps s.l.) for Its Pharmacological Potential. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med 2015, 2015: 189891. PMID: 26451152, DOI: 10.1155/2015/189891.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchLineage-specific genes are clustered with HET-domain genes and respond to environmental and genetic manipulations regulating reproduction in Neurospora
Wang Z, Wang Y, Kasuga T, Lopez-Giraldez F, Zhang Y, Zhang Z, Wang Y, Dong C, Sil A, Trail F, Yarden O, Townsend J. Lineage-specific genes are clustered with HET-domain genes and respond to environmental and genetic manipulations regulating reproduction in Neurospora. PLOS Genetics 2023, 19: e1011019. PMID: 37934795, PMCID: PMC10684091, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1011019.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLineage-specific genesHET domain genesSexual reproductionFunctional roleUnusual carbon sourcesPotential functional roleMating lociAsexual growthGenetic mutantsNeurospora crassaPossible functional roleSexual phaseGenetic manipulationTranscriptomic profilingReproduction regulationGene knockoutPP-1ADV-1Environmental alterationsGenesSexual developmentNeurosporaReproductionCarbon sourceGenetic barrierDeath caps (Amanita phalloides) frequently establish from sexual spores, but individuals can grow large and live for more than a decade in invaded forests.
Golan J, Wang YW, Adams CA, Cross H, Elmore H, Gardes M, Gonçalves SC, Hess J, Richard F, Wolfe B, Pringle A. Death caps (Amanita phalloides) frequently establish from sexual spores, but individuals can grow large and live for more than a decade in invaded forests. New Phytol 2023 PMID: 38146206, DOI: 10.1111/nph.19483.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2023
The Sordariomycetes: an expanding resource with Big Data for mining in evolutionary genomics and transcriptomics
Wang Z, Kim W, Wang Y, Yakubovich E, Dong C, Trail F, Townsend J, Yarden O. The Sordariomycetes: an expanding resource with Big Data for mining in evolutionary genomics and transcriptomics. Frontiers In Fungal Biology 2023, 4: 1214537. PMID: 37746130, PMCID: PMC10512317, DOI: 10.3389/ffunb.2023.1214537.Peer-Reviewed Reviews, Practice Guidelines, Standards, and Consensus StatementsEvolutionary genomicsOmics dataFungal sexual developmentAncestral state analysisRichness of speciesDifferent taxonomic levelsAspects of biologySpecies/generaSystems biological analysisRegulatory network modelKnowledge of evolutionAscomycete genomesSordariomycetes classFungal evolutionTrait diversityDivergent lineagesFungal kingdomFungal biologyGenomic scaleSecondary metabolismModel genomesModel fungusModel speciesEcological diversityKey genetic elements
2021
A precise relationship among Buller's drop, ballistospore, and gill morphologies enables maximum packing of spores within gilled mushrooms.
Iapichino M, Wang YW, Gentry S, Pringle A, Seminara A. A precise relationship among Buller's drop, ballistospore, and gill morphologies enables maximum packing of spores within gilled mushrooms. Mycologia 2021, 113: 300-311. PMID: 33497296, DOI: 10.1080/00275514.2020.1823175.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2020
Diversity and pathogenicity of Colletotrichum species causing strawberry anthracnose in Taiwan and description of a new species, Colletotrichum miaoliense sp. nov.
Chung PC, Wu HY, Wang YW, Ariyawansa HA, Hu HP, Hung TH, Tzean SS, Chung CL. Diversity and pathogenicity of Colletotrichum species causing strawberry anthracnose in Taiwan and description of a new species, Colletotrichum miaoliense sp. nov. Sci Rep 2020, 10: 14664. PMID: 32887909, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-70878-2.Peer-Reviewed Original Research