2019
Metabolism and Development during Conidial Germination in Response to a Carbon-Nitrogen-Rich Synthetic or a Natural Source of Nutrition in Neurospora crassa
Wang Z, Miguel-Rojas C, Lopez-Giraldez F, Yarden O, Trail F, Townsend JP. Metabolism and Development during Conidial Germination in Response to a Carbon-Nitrogen-Rich Synthetic or a Natural Source of Nutrition in Neurospora crassa. MBio 2019, 10: 10.1128/mbio.00192-19. PMID: 30914504, PMCID: PMC6437048, DOI: 10.1128/mbio.00192-19.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDevelopmental regulatory genesVegetative growthAsexual reproductionConidial germinationRegulatory genesNutritional environmentLife historyNitrogen metabolismLife-history decisionsMode of reproductionAdaptive life historiesKnockout of genesGenome-wide transcriptomicsEarly life historySexual developmentMetabolic gene expressionReproductive dispersalSexual reproductionDevelopmental genesMetabolic genesNeurospora crassaDiverse ecosystemsNutrient conditionsGene expressionMajor switch
2018
Developmental Dynamics of Long Noncoding RNA Expression during Sexual Fruiting Body Formation in Fusarium graminearum
Kim W, Miguel-Rojas C, Wang J, Townsend JP, Trail F. Developmental Dynamics of Long Noncoding RNA Expression during Sexual Fruiting Body Formation in Fusarium graminearum. MBio 2018, 9: 10.1128/mbio.01292-18. PMID: 30108170, PMCID: PMC6094484, DOI: 10.1128/mbio.01292-18.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSmall RNA clustersSubset of lncRNAsRole of lncRNAsBody formationRNA clustersAntisense lncRNAsSexual developmentDevelopmental stage-specific expression patternsStage-specific expression patternsVegetative growthNonsense-mediated decay pathwayFundamental genomic resourcesMeiotic stagesHundreds of lncRNAsSense-antisense pairsGenome-wide analysisRNA surveillance systemLong Noncoding RNA ExpressionPlant pathogenic fungiNoncoding RNA ExpressionKey regulatory componentOpposite DNA strandsFruiting-body formationMajor staple cropDevelopmental transcriptome
2012
Analyses of expressed sequence tags in Neurosporareveal rapid evolution of genes associated with the early stages of sexual reproduction in fungi
Nygren K, Wallberg A, Samils N, Stajich JE, Townsend JP, Karlsson M, Johannesson H. Analyses of expressed sequence tags in Neurosporareveal rapid evolution of genes associated with the early stages of sexual reproduction in fungi. BMC Ecology And Evolution 2012, 12: 229. PMID: 23186325, PMCID: PMC3571971, DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-12-229.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSex-associated genesVegetative tissuesSequence tagsRapid evolutionCandidate genesGenome-wide patternsFruiting-body developmentMolecular evolutionary analysisHigher relative expressionFungal kingdomReproductive isolationSexual reproductionGenome scaleReproductive genesEvolutionary analysisN. discretaMate recognitionN. crassaN. tetraspermaPositive selectionAdditional taxaMicroarray hybridizationAdditional speciesN. intermediaVegetative growth