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Nat Commun2023;14(1):6560.October 24, 2023Journal Article
Invasive Californian death caps develop mushrooms unisexually and bisexually.
Yen-Wen Wang1, Megan C McKeon2,3, Holly Elmore4, Jaqueline Hess5, Jacob Golan6, Hunter Gage3, William Mao6, Evan Harrow6,7, Susana C Gonçalves8, Christina M Hull3,9, Anne Pringle6,10
1Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA. yen-wen.wang@yale.edu.
2Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
3Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
4Rethink Priorities, San Francisco, CA, USA.
5Cambrium GmbH, Berlin, Germany.
6Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
7Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
8Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
9Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
10Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Abstract
Canonical sexual reproduction among basidiomycete fungi involves the fusion of two haploid individuals of different mating types, resulting in a heterokaryotic mycelial body made up of genetically different nuclei. Using population genomics data and experiments, we discover mushrooms of the invasive and deadly Amanita phalloides can also be homokaryotic; evidence of sexual reproduction by single,…
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