Very excited to see the final version of our kingdom-scale fungal genome defense manuscript out in @plosbiology.org !
This work has been a major project of @tbadet.bsky.social during his time in our lab.
We hope to stimulate much more exciting work on fungal TEs.
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Fungal genome size variation is largely driven by transposable elements and shaped by lineage-specific genome defense mechanisms. This study shows that the presence or absence of repeat-induced point ...
Fungal #GenomeSize variation is largely driven by TEs & lineage-specific genome defenses. @tbadet.bsky.social & @danielcroll.bsky.social show that presence/absence of RIP mutation systems influences #genome architecture, identifying a likely novel defense mechanism @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4hcC5tx
