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Earlham Institute @earlhaminst.bsky.social · 4d

🍄 Today marks #UKFungusDay where we get to celebrate the weird and wonderful kingdom of Fungi.

As well as being fundamental to a healthy ecosystem, and often fascinating to spot, #Fungi can be devastating to plant and animal populations.

A common bracket fungus on the side of a tree

Xylaria fungus growing out of a tree stump

Small cap mushrooms surrounded by fallen leaves and grass in a woodland

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Benjamin Wolfe @benwolfe.bsky.social · 22d

Such a delight to share our work on the evolution of a cheese rind fungus in @currentbiology.bsky.social.

This is the fantastic PhD work of @nicolasleonlouw.bsky.social and resulted from amazing collaborations, a wedding proposal(!), an undergrad course, & more!

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www.cell.com/current-biol...

Long-term monitoring of a North American cheese cave reveals mechanisms and consequences of fungal adaptation

Using a unique longitudinal sampling approach, Louw et al. demonstrate how a cheese-associated Penicillium population has adapted in an artisan cheese production facility in Vermont, USA. Adaptation i...

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Rowena Hill @rowenahill.bsky.social · 22d

Was a pleasure to contribute a small part to this massive WGS effort of Kew's fungarium! @estergaya.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social

Check out the paper @newphyt.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1111/nph.70472

A map of the world with countries coloured by how many accessions they have in Kew's fungarium, and pie charts for each country indicating how many accessions have had DNA extracted and their genomes sequenced

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dactylioceras.bsky.social @dactylioceras.bsky.social · 28d

THIS WEEK HAS SAUCE 4

Stunning fossils in sedimentary rocks reveal a new and co-oldest Early Cretaceous gilled mushroom-forming fungus

Edaphagaricites conicus gen. nov. et sp. nov.

academic.oup.com/botlinnean/a...

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The British Lichen Society @britishlichensociety.org.uk · Sep 5

An opportunity of a lifetime for budding lichenologists. The National Trust and the Royal Botanics, Edinburgh are offering a PAID lichen traineeship in #Scotland! The work programme looks fascinating and a great opportunity to develop skills. Deadline: 3/10/2025. www.asva.co.uk/jobs/trainee...

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Rowena Hill @rowenahill.bsky.social · Aug 27

It was a delight to have Guillaume Delhaye and Torda Varga (@rbgkew.bsky.social) at @earlhaminst.bsky.social last week, talking to a packed Norwich Research Park audience about mushroom-forming and mycorrhizal fungi from molecule to ecosystem! 🍄🧬🌳

@neilhall.bsky.social @norwichmicro.bsky.social

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John Lovell @jotlovell.bsky.social · Aug 18

Determining presence-absence variation (PAV) across reference genomes is a major goal of pangenome analysis. It turns out that A LOT of gene PAV is due to methodological artifacts.

We explore the causes of this in soybean and cotton datasets in our recent preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

pangenome 'expansion' curves for cotton and soybean

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Fantin Mesny @mesny.bsky.social · Aug 15

📣 NEW PREPRINT 📝

We identified evolutionary origins of many fungal effectors!
We show that fungi secrete lots of antimicrobial proteins, and that some of them were repurposed by plant pathogens for host immune suppression.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

cc @teamthomma.bsky.social

Plant-associated fungi co-opt ancient antimicrobials for host manipulation

Evolutionary histories of effector proteins secreted by fungal pathogens to mediate plant colonization remain largely elusive. While most functionally characterized effectors modulate plant immunity, ...

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Jason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social · Aug 6

New #preprint from talented graduate student for a workflow we have been using for a while into a formal usage www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Phyling: phylogenetic inference from annotated genomes

Phyling is a fast, scalable, and user-friendly tool supporting phylogenomic reconstruction of species phylogenies directly from protein-encoded genomic data. It identifies orthologous genes by searchi...

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Laura van Galen @laura-vangalen.bsky.social · Aug 1

Our paper mapping plant and mycorrhizal fungal diversity correlations is out! Relationships are weak at the global level, but both positive and negative at smaller scales. Plants are not always proxies for fungi — fungi need their own conservation focus @spun.earth @ethz.ch
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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Team Thomma @teamthomma.bsky.social · Jul 24

📣 Happy to see the journal publication 📄 of our work on Starships 🚀 in Verticillium fungi: terrific work led by @yukiyosato.bsky.social
rdcu.be/exBSp

Starship giant transposons dominate plastic genomic regions in a fungal plant pathogen and drive virulence evolution

Nature Communications - Giant transposons, known as ‘Starships’, mediate horizontal gene transfer between fungal genomes. Here, Sato et al. show that Starships occupy genome regions...

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Laurie Belcher @lauriebelch.bsky.social · Jul 16

OrthoFinder just dropped a major update

It’s faster, more accurate, and ready for thousands of genomes

Let’s break it down (1/10)

github.com/OrthoFinder/...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Earlham Institute @earlhaminst.bsky.social · Jun 30

💬 “We are taking genome #annotations from disparate methods and harnessing the information contained in them to produce a more unified set of annotations.”

Comparing #genomes at scale with pan-annotation tools.
buff.ly/TMOWcG8

@rowenahill.bsky.social

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Pangenome annotation opens up a multiverse of genes

Gaining deeper insights into genetic diversity with pangenome annotation.

www.earlham.ac.uk

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Michael Cunliffe 🏳️‍🌈 @marinemicrobes.bsky.social · Jun 23

Marine fungi culture collections (such as the one we have at @thembauk.bsky.social) are helping unlock the possibility for finding new solutions to many of the world’s biggest challenges 🌊🍄=💊🥓🪲 @uk.theconversation.com @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
👉 theconversation.com/marine-fungi...

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Rowena Hill @rowenahill.bsky.social · Jun 26

Some magnolias do perform 'remontant' (second) flowering in the summer or autumn bygl.osu.edu/index.php/no... ours does it some years🙂

Floral Fear Returns... JUST RELAX!!

Worried about plant health because your Magnolia is suddenly blooming now... Is it a goner? Find out what causes reblooming on plants and what it means for the plants that have it!

bygl.osu.edu

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estergaya.bsky.social @estergaya.bsky.social · Jun 25

🚨 Job Alert at RBG Kew! We are looking for Lab Research Assistants in genomics to join our Fungarium Sequencing Project! Do you like Fungi? Do you want to develop new -omics techniques? Interested in historical collections? Join the team! Posts to start ASAP. Apply here:https://lnkd.in/e2BpWJpA

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Michael Cunliffe 🏳️‍🌈 @marinemicrobes.bsky.social · Jun 16

Marine Fungi are found everywhere in the ocean. They are recyclers, a goldmine of compounds and symbiotic with other marine life. I chat about Marine Fungi in the BBC programme 'Secrets of the Sea'. Follow the link 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... @thembauk.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social

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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · Jun 12

Hey, Miles' @milesroberts.bsky.social beautiful paper showing that sequence diversity missed by standard methods contributes to Lewontin's paradox is officially published in @evolletters.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

k-mer-based diversity scales with population size proxies more than nucleotide diversity in a meta-analysis of 98 plant species

Abstract. A key prediction of neutral theory is that the level of genetic diversity in a population should scale with population size. However, as was note

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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · Jun 9

Our newest special issue is now live! Check it out to discover more about diverse and beautiful Fungi🍄🍄‍🟫🍄 On the cover: the fly agaric, Amanita muscaria, releasing its spores in the early morning light. www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · Jun 4

The #GENETICS June cover features an illustration of Starships, giant cargo-mobilising transposable elements found in fungal species of the subphylum Pezizomycotina. Starship elements are highly variable in overall length & genetic content.

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Rowena Hill @rowenahill.bsky.social · Jun 4

Our paper on phylogenetics of fungal Starship TEs is now on the cover of the June issue of Genetics @genetics-gsa.bsky.social 🙂
academic.oup.com/genetics/iss...

@mcmullan0.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social @rothamsted.bsky.social

Cover for the June issue of the journal Genetics, with an abstract illustration in the background showing starships flying through space trailing DNA sequences that meet in the bottom right corner to form a circular phylogenetic tree

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · May 23

This #FungiFriday we want to share the latest issue of Field Mycology! This is the first issue to be edited by Kew Mycologist @clareblencowe.bsky.social and marks the publication now being #OpenAccess

Check it out at fieldmycology.org

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Lucy Crouch @lucyicm.bsky.social · May 23

🍄The Last of Us - NIHR HPRU PhD opportunity🍄 Very exciting project on developing a genomic epidemiology toolkit for fungal outbreaks with @mcdonaldmeganc.bsky.social @drjorhodes.com @scalene.bsky.social and the Mycological Reference Lab Bristol www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The Last of Us: Developing a Genomic Epidemiology Toolkit for Fungal Outbreaks at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - The Last of Us: Developing a Genomic Epidemiology Toolkit for Fungal Outbreaks at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · May 16

📢 JOB: Lead a landmark project to sequence 20,000 fungi & lichens from one of the world’s largest fungarium collections. Shape science, support biodiversity, and help safeguard our fungal future 🌍🧪

👉 careers.kew.org/vacancy/seni...

🗓️ Apply by 25 May

#PlantSciJobs #fungi

Four plastic microcentrifuge tubes held in a bright yellow rack, each containing small metal beads and liquid in shades of orange and yellow, used for processing biological samples such as fungal DNA.

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Kenichi Tsuda @kenichitsuda.bsky.social · May 16

This is wild. Chromosome distributions into different nuclei!

Distribution of haploid chromosomes into separate nuclei in two pathogenic fungi
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Distribution of haploid chromosomes into separate nuclei in two pathogenic fungi

Nuclei define eukaryotes, enabling macromolecular compartmentalization and cellular regulation. Each nucleus is believed to contain one or more haploid sets of chromosomes (1N). However, we discovered...

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