L. G. Nagy

This study analyzes gene family evolution across 123 fungal and related genomes to show gradual protist gene loss and episodic innovation in early fungal evolution.

This study uses dual RNA-Seq to analyze the transcriptomes of Trichoderma atroviride and Armillaria ostoyae during their antagonistic interaction, revealing biocontrol mechanisms and defense responses.

This paper identifies 921 conserved genes involved in fruiting body morphogenesis across Agaricomycetes fungi and proposes functional hypotheses for many of them.

The paper shows that gene age predicts transcriptional patterns during sexual morphogenesis in multicellular fungi, with younger genes showing more expression variation and functional specialization.

This study shows that developmental innovations in mushroom-forming fungi, such as enclosed spore structures, are linked to increased diversification rates and adaptive radiation.

This study identifies genomic features of the transition to ectomycorrhizal habit in Russulaceae fungi, finding gene loss, TE expansion, and secreted protein associations with TE nests.

This study compares transcriptomic and proteomic data of two Armillaria species to understand their wood-decay mechanisms, finding that saprotrophic A. cepistipes shows more extensive changes than pathogenic A. ostoyae.

The paper shows that genes for complex multicellularity have converged across distant fungal clades, indicating genomic constraints on evolutionary paths.

This study sequenced the genome of Auriculariopsis ampla and analyzed its transcriptome to uncover genetic features related to wood-decay and fruiting body development in fungi.

This study uses comparative genomics to show that fungal hyphae evolved through gene co-option and limited diversification, contrasting with other multicellular lineages.