Bonnet #mushrooms have expanded #genomes to make them more adaptable to multiple lifestyles https://phys.org/news/2024-06-bonnet-mushrooms-genomes-multiple-lifestyles.html #fungi #genomics

Extreme overall #mushroom #genome expansion in #Mycena s.s. irrespective of plant hosts or substrate specializations https://www.cell.com/cell-genomics/fulltext/S2666-979X(24)00170-8

"Mycena have simply used every possible known trick from the playbook to expand their genomes and apparently for multiple different purposes that are not obviously connected to their known, supposedly preferred lifestyle"