Origins of xyloglucan‐degrading enzymes in fungi

ED Trudeau, H Brumer, ML Berbee - New Phytologist, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
The origin story of land plants–the pivotal evolutionary event that paved the way for
terrestrial ecosystems of today to flourish–lies within their closest living relatives: the …

Immune-like glycan-sensing and horizontally-acquired glycan-processing orchestrate host control in a microbial endosymbiosis

BH Jenkins, ES Kilias, FR Savory, MES Soerensen… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Endosymbiosis was a key factor in the evolution of eukaryotic cellular complexity. Yet the
mechanisms that allow host regulation of intracellular symbionts, a pre-requisite for stable …

Innovations in Alginate Catabolism Leading to Heterotrophy and Adaptive Evolution of Diatoms

ZH Lim, P Zheng, C Quek, M Nowrousian… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
A major goal of evolutionary biology is to identify the genetic basis for the emergence of
adaptive traits. Diatoms are ancestrally photosynthetic microalgae. However, in the genus …