The Mycota, Volume 13: Fungal Genomics

About this book

Fungal Genomics is divided into four sections, the first of which, Genome Sequences and Beyond, illustrates the impact of genome-based information and techniques on research ranging from model organisms like yeast to less-studied basal fungal lineages. Furthermore, it highlights novel types of analysis made possible by multi-genome comparisons as well as the impact of genomics on culture collections and vice versa. The second section, Cell and Developmental Biology, addresses questions that are important for fungal biology, e.g. the development of fungal fruiting bodies, and biology in general, e.g. chromatin organization and circadian rhythms. The third section, Genomics for Biotechnology, covers the search for plant biomass-converting enzymes in fungal genomes and work with industrially important fungi. The fourth section, focusing on Pathogenicity, offers chapters on the genomic analysis of plant and animal/human pathogens. It illustrates how genomics at all levels, from genome to metabolome, is used to study mechanisms of the interactions of fungi with other organisms.

Contents

Genome sequences and beyond
1    Yeast as a model for systems biology studies on complex diseases
      Juan I. Castrillo, Steve G. Oliver
2    Genomics to study basal lineage fungal biology: phylogenomics suggest a common origin
      Kerstin Voigt and Ekaterina Shelest
3    Phylogenomics to study fungal biology
      Toni Gabaldon
4    Genome data drives change at culture collections
      Kevin McCluskey, Aric Wiest and Kyria Boundy-Mills

Cell and developmental biology
5    Fungal chromatin and its role in regulation of gene expression
      Michael Freitag
6    Photobiology and circadian clocks in Neurospora
      Jennifer Loros, Jay Dunlap, Kevin Fuller and Jennifer Hurley
7    Genomics and transcriptomics to analyze fruiting body development
      Minou Nowrousian

Genomics for biotechnology
8    Degradation and modification of plant biomass by fungi
      Ronald P. de Vries, Mia R. Mäkelä and Kristiina S. Hilden
9    Transcriptomics of industrial filamentous fungi: a new view on regulation, physiology and application
      Vera Meyer and Benjamin Nitsche
10  Genomics analysis of biocontrol species and industrial enzyme producers from the genus Trichoderma
      Christian Kubicek, Monika Schmoll, Bernhard Seiboth and Irina Druzhinina

Pathogenicity
11  Application of genomics to the study of pathogenicity and development in Fusarium
      Frances Trail, Donald Gardiner

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