Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
Introgressive descent and hypersexuality drive the evolution of sexual parasitism and morphological reduction in a fungal species complex.
F. Fernandez-Mendoza, E. Strasser, I. Frolov…·M. Grube
The paper shows hybridization explains morphological and genetic diversity in Pyrenodesmia fungi, with genome defense mechanisms and RIP shaping genomic stability and morphological reduction.
DOI 10.1101/2023.01.10.523206