Mycology: Metagenomes illuminate evolutionary relationships and reframe symbiotic interactions

A Elizabeth Arnold

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.10.041

Mycology: Metagenomes illuminate evolutionary relationships and reframe symbiotic interactions

Curr Biol. 2022 Dec 5;32(23):R1304-R1306. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.10.041.

Author

A Elizabeth Arnold¹

Affiliation

¹ School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. Electronic address: arnold,@,ag.arizona.edu.

PMID: 36473438
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.10.041

Abstract

An intriguing new study leverages newly generated metagenomes to remap the evolution of the most species-rich clade of fungi, highlighting how some of the most intriguing and visible manifestations of symbioses - lichens - may arise.

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