The Plant Cell Wall–Decomposing Machinery Underlies the Functional Diversity of Forest Fungi

• DOI: 10.1126/science.1205411
• Publication Date: 2011-07-15T02:48:36Z
• Authors: Daniel C. Eastwood; Dimitrios Floudas; Manfred Binder; Andrzej Majcherczyk; Patrick Schneider; Andrea Aerts; Fred O. Asiegbu; Scott E. Baker; Kerrie Barry; Mika Bendiksby; Melanie Blumentritt; Pedro M. Coutinho; Dan Cullen; Ronald P. de Vries; Allen Gathman; Barry Goodell; Bernard Henrissat; Katarina Ihrmark; Hävard Kauserud; Annegret Kohler; Kurt LaButti; Alla Lapidus; José L. Lavin; Yong-Hwan Lee; Erika Lindquist; Walt Lilly; Susan Lucas; Emmanuelle Morin; Claude Murat; José A. Oguiza; Jongsun Park; Antonio G. Pisabarro; Robert Riley; Anna Rosling; Asaf Salamov; Olaf Schmidt; Jeremy Schmutz; Inger Skrede; Jan Stenlid; Ad Wiebenga; Xinfeng Xie; Ursula Kües; David S. Hibbett; Dirk Hoffmeister; Nils Högberg; Francis Martin; Igor V. Grigoriev; Sarah C. Watkinson
• Keywords: Decomposer; Convergent evolution; Functional Diversity; Divergence (linguistics); Functional divergence

Comparative genomic analysis of “dry rot” fungus shows both convergent evolution and divergence among fungal decomposers.