Survey of Early-Diverging Lineages of Fungi Reveals Abundant and Diverse Mycoviruses-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Survey of Early-Diverging Lineages of Fungi Reveals Abundant and Diverse Mycoviruses

Published:2020-10-27 Issue:5 Volume:11 Page:
ISSN:2161-2129
Container-title:mBio
language:en
Short-container-title:mBio

Author:

Myers J. M.¹^ORCID,Bonds A. E.¹,Clemons R. A.¹,Thapa N. A.¹,Simmons D. R.¹,Carter-House D.²,Ortanez J.²,Liu P.²,Miralles-Durán A.³,Desirò A.⁴,Longcore J. E.⁵,Bonito G.⁴,Stajich J. E.²^ORCID,Spatafora J. W.⁶,Chang Y.⁶,Corrochano L. M.³,Gryganskyi A.⁷,Grigoriev I. V.⁸⁹,James T. Y.¹

Affiliation:

1. University of Michigan, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

2. University of California—Riverside, Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Riverside, California, USA

3. University of Seville, Department of Genetics, Seville, Spain

4. Michigan State University, Department of Plant Soil and Microbial Sciences, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

5. University of Maine, School of Biology and Ecology, Orono, Maine, USA

6. Oregon State University, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Corvalis, Oregon, USA

7. L. F. Lambert Spawn Co., Coatesville, Pennsylvania, USA

8. U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA

9. University of California—Berkeley, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, Berkeley, California, USA

Abstract

Viruses are key drivers of evolution and ecosystem function and are increasingly recognized as symbionts of fungi. Fungi in early-diverging lineages are widespread, ecologically important, and comprise the majority of the phylogenetic diversity of the kingdom. Viruses infecting early-diverging lineages of fungi have been almost entirely unstudied. In this study, we screened fungi for viruses by two alternative approaches: a classic culture-based method and by transcriptome-mining. The results of our large-scale survey demonstrate that early-diverging lineages have higher infection rates than have been previously reported in other fungal taxa and that laboratory strains worldwide are host to infections, the implications of which are unknown. The function and diversity of mycoviruses found in these basal fungal lineages will help guide future studies into mycovirus origins and their evolutionary ramifications and ecological impacts.

Funder

National Science Foundation

U.S. Department of Energy

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Virology,Microbiology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/mBio.02027-20

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