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Phylogenomic Analyses Indicate that Early Fungi Evolved Digesting Cell Walls of Algal Ancestors of Land Plants

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Chang, Ying, Wang, Sishuo, Sekimoto, Satoshi, Aerts, Andrea L., Choi, Cindy, Clum, Alicia, LaButti, Kurt M., Lindquist, Erika A., Ngan, Chew Yee, Ohm, Robin A., Salamov, Asaf A., Grigoriev, Igor V., Spatafora, Joseph W., and Berbee, Mary L.

Abstract:

As decomposers, fungi are key players in recycling plant material in global carbon cycles. We hypothesized that genomes of early diverging fungi may have inherited pectinases from an ancestral species that had been able to extract nutrients from pectin-containing land plants and their algal allies (Streptophytes). We aimed to infer,...

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