Starships: a new frontier for fungal biology

2024/09/19 by Andrew Urquhart, Aaron A. Vogan, Emile Gluck-Thaler +1 · 1 voice
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions #Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases #Plant and Fungal Interactions Research

paper · doi:10.1016/j.tig.2024.08.006

openalex publication_date 2024/09/19 · crossref created 2024/09/19 · crossref issued 2024/12/01 · crossref published 2024/12/01 · crossref published-print 2024/12/01 · crossref deposited 2024/12/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · crossref indexed 2026/06/07 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15

Citations

• The two-speed genomes of filamentous pathogens: waltz with plants
• How mycorrhizal associations drive plant population and community biology
• Systematic identification of cargo-mobilizing genetic elements reveals new dimensions of eukaryotic diversity
• Giant transposons promote strain heterogeneity in a major fungal pathogen

Discussions

• Starships are fungal giant transposons that are unique in their capacity to carry a wide range of cargo genes with diverse functions. Starships have long remained undiscovered and are still often over [bsky, 3 points, 1 comments]