Triumphs and challenges of natural product discovery in the postgenomic era

C Cano-Prieto, A Undabarrena… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Natural products have played significant roles as medicine and food throughout human
history. Here, we first provide a brief historical overview of natural products, their …

Manipulative neuroparasites: uncovering the intricacies of neurological host control

V Gowda, S Dinesh, S Sharma - Archives of Microbiology, 2023 - Springer
Manipulative neuroparasites are a fascinating group of organisms that possess the ability to
hijack the nervous systems of their hosts, manipulating their behavior in order to enhance …

Signatures of transposon-mediated genome inflation, host specialization, and photoentrainment in Entomophthora muscae and allied entomophthoralean fungi

JE Stajich, B Lovett, E Lee, AM Macias, AE Hajek… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Despite over a century of observations, the obligate insect parasites within the order
Entomophthorales remain poorly characterized at the genetic level. In this manuscript, we …

Divergent evolution of early terrestrial fungi reveals the evolution of Mucormycosis pathogenicity factors

Y Wang, Y Chang, J Ortañez, JF Peña… - Genome biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Fungi have evolved over millions of years and their species diversity is predicted to be the
second largest on the earth. Fungi have cross-kingdom interactions with many organisms …

Metagenome-assembled genomes of bacteria associated with Massospora cicadina fungal plugs from infected brood VIII periodical cicadas

CL Ettinger, B Lovett, MT Kasson… - Microbiology Resource …, 2022 - journals.asm.org
We report six metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) associated with Massospora
cicadina strain MCPNR19 (ARSEF 14555), an obligate entomopathogenic fungus of …