Death caps (Amanita phalloides) frequently establish from sexual spores, but individuals can grow large and live for more than a decade in invaded forests.

Jacob Golan¹, Yen-Wen Wang¹, Catharine A Adams², Hugh Cross³, Holly Elmore⁴, Monique Gardes⁵, Susana C Gonçalves⁶, Jaqueline Hess⁷, Franck Richard⁸, Benjamin Wolfe⁹, Anne Pringle^1,10

¹Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53706, USA.

²Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.

³National Ecological Observatory Network-Battelle, 1685 38th, Suite 100, Boulder, CO, 80301, USA.

⁴Rethink Priorities, 530 Divisadero St. PMB #796, San Francisco, CA, 94117, USA.

⁵Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB), UMR5174 UPS-CNRS-IRD, Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier, 118 Route de Narbonne, Toulouse Cedex, F-31062, France.

⁶Department of Life Sciences, Centre for Functional Ecology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, 3000-456, Portugal.

⁷Cambrium GmbH, Max-Urich-Str. 3, 13355, Berlin, Germany.

⁸CEFE, Université de Montpellier - CNRS - EPHE - IRD, 1919 route de Mende, F-34293, Montpellier Cedex 5, France.

⁹Department of Biology, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 02155, USA.

¹⁰Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53706, USA.

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Abstract

Global change is reshaping Earth's biodiversity, but the changing distributions of nonpathogenic fungi remain largely undocumented, as do mechanisms enabling invasions. The ectomycorrhizal Amanita phalloides is native to Europe and invasive in North America. Using population genetics and genomics, we sought to describe the life history traits of this successfully invading symbiotic fungus. To test…

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