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SUBMITTER: Kiss E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6733946 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kiss Enikő E Hegedüs Botond B Virágh Máté M Varga Torda T Merényi Zsolt Z Kószó Tamás T Bálint Balázs B Prasanna Arun N AN Krizsán Krisztina K Kocsubé Sándor S Riquelme Meritxell M Takeshita Norio N Nagy László G LG
Nature communications 20190909 1
Hyphae represent a hallmark structure of multicellular fungi. The evolutionary origins of hyphae and of the underlying genes are, however, hardly known. By systematically analyzing 72 complete genomes, we here show that hyphae evolved early in fungal evolution probably via diverse genetic changes, including co-option and exaptation of ancient eukaryotic (e.g. phagocytosis-related) genes, the origin of new gene families, gene duplications and alterations of gene structure, among others. Contrary ...[more]