ArticleeLife2018
Single nucleus sequencing reveals evidence of inter-nucleus recombination in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.
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- Detection of rare variants among nuclei populating the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal model species Rhizophagus irregularis DAOM197198.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Article
- Diversity of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Distinct Ecosystems of the North Caucasus, a Temperate Biodiversity Hotspot.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- A highly contiguous genome assembly reveals sources of genomic novelty in the symbiotic fungus Rhizophagus irregularis.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2023Article
- Stochastic nuclear organization and host-dependent allele contribution in Rhizophagus irregularis.BMC genomics · 2023Article
- Early branching arbuscular mycorrhizal fungusMicrobial genomics · 2022Article
- A targeted bioinformatics approach identifies highly variable cell surface proteins that are unique to Glomeromycotina.Mycorrhiza · 2022Article
- Reciprocal recombination genomic signatures in the symbiotic arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi Rhizophagus irregularis.PloS one · 2022Article
- Transcriptome-wide SNPs for Botrychium lunaria ferns enable fine-grained analysis of ploidy and population structure.Molecular ecology resources · 2022Article
- Generation of unequal nuclear genotype proportions in Rhizophagus irregularis progeny causes allelic imbalance in gene transcription.The New phytologist · 2021Article
- Regulation of mating genes during arbuscular mycorrhizal isolate co-existence-where is the evidence?The ISME journal · 2021Article
- The methylome of the model arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus, Rhizophagus irregularis, shares characteristics with early diverging fungi and Dikarya.Communications biology · 2021Article
- Homo- and Dikaryons of the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal FungusFrontiers in plant science · 2021Article
- Coexistence of genetically different Rhizophagus irregularis isolates induces genes involved in a putative fungal mating response.The ISME journal · 2020Article
- More Filtering on SNP Calling Does Not Remove Evidence of Inter-Nucleus Recombination in Dikaryotic Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi.Frontiers in plant science · 2020Article
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Abstract
Eukaryotes thought to have evolved clonally for millions of years are referred to as ancient asexuals. The oldest group among these are the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), which are plant symbionts harboring hundreds of nuclei within one continuous cytoplasm. Some AMF strains (dikaryons) harbor two co-existing nucleotypes but there is no direct evidence that such nuclei recombine in this life-stage, as is expected for sexual fungi. Here, we show that AMF nuclei with distinct genotypes can undergo recombination. Inter-nuclear genetic exchange varies in frequency among strains, and despite recombination all nuclear genomes have an average similarity of at least 99.8%. The present study demonstrates that AMF can generate genetic diversity via meiotic-like processes in the absence of observable mating. The AMF dikaryotic life-stage is a primary source of nuclear variability in these organisms, highlighting its potential for strain enhancement of these symbionts.
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