Floudas, Dimitrios1; Binder, Manfred1; Riley, Robert; Barry, Kerrie2; Blanchette, Robert A.3; Henrissat, Bernard4; Martínez, Angel T.5; Ortillar, Robert2; Spatafora, Joseph W.6; Yadav, Jagjit S.7; Aerts, Andrea2; Benoit, Isabelle8; Boyd, Alex6; Carlson, Alexis1; Copeland, Alex2; Coutinho, Pedro M.4; de Vries, Ronald P.8; Ferreira, Patricia9; Findley, Keisha10; Foster, Brian2; Gaskell, Jill11; Glotzer, Dylan1; Górecki, Paweł12; Heitman, Joseph10; Hesse, Cedar6; Hori, Chiaki13; Igarashi, Kiyohiko13; Jurgens, Joel A.3; Kallen, Nathan1; Kersten, Phil11; Kohler, Annegret14; Kües, Ursula15; Kumar, T. K. Arun16; Kuo, Alan2; LaButti, Kurt2; Larrondo, Luis F.17; Lindquist, Erika2; Ling, Albee1; Lombard, Vincent4; Lucas, Susan2; Lundell, Taina18; Martin, Rachael1; McLaughlin, David J.16; Morgenstern, Ingo19; Morin, Emanuelle14; Murat, Claude14; Nagy, László G.; Nolan, Matt2; Ohm, Robin A.2; Patyshakuliyeva, Aleksandrina20; Rokas, Antonis21; Ruiz-Dueñas, Francisco J.5; Sabat, Grzegorz22; Salamov, Asaf2; Samejima, Masahiro13; Schmutz, Jeremy23; Slot, Jason C.21; St. John, Franz11; Stenlid, Jan24; Sun, Hui2; Sun, Sheng10; Syed, Khajamohiddin7; Tsang, Adrian19; Wiebenga, Ad20; Young, Darcy1; Pisabarro, Antonio25; Eastwood, Daniel C.26; Martin, Francis14; Cullen, Dan11; Grigoriev, Igor V.2; Hibbett, David S.1
Affiliations
- Clark University
- United States Department of Energy
- University of Minnesota
- Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques
- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas
- Oregon State University
- University of Cincinnati
- Utrecht University
- University of Zaragoza
- Duke University Hospital
- Forest Products Laboratory
- University of Warsaw
- University of Tokyo
- Interactions Arbres-Microorganismes
- University of Göttingen
- Department of Plant Biology
- Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
- University of Helsinki
- Concordia University
- Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Vanderbilt University
- University of Wisconsin Biotechnology Center, Madison, WI 53726, USA.
- HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Genetics and Microbiology Research Group, Public University of Navarre, 31006 Pamplona, Spain.
- Swansea University
Published Jun 29, 2012
on Dryad.
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.5k3t47p0
Wood is a major pool of organic carbon that is highly resistant to decay, owing largely to the presence of lignin. The only organisms capable of substantial lignin decay are white rot fungi in the Agaricomycetes, which also contains non–lignin-degrading brown rot and ectomycorrhizal species. Comparative analyses of 31 fungal genomes (12 generated for this study) suggest that lignin-degrading peroxidases expanded in the lineage leading to the ancestor of the Agaricomycetes, which is reconstructed as a white rot species, and then contracted in parallel lineages leading to brown rot and mycorrhizal species. Molecular clock analyses suggest that the origin of lignin degradation might have coincided with the sharp decrease in the rate of organic carbon burial around the end of the Carboniferous period.