dc.contributor.author | Leonard, G | |
dc.contributor.author | Labarre, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Milner, DS | |
dc.contributor.author | Monier, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Soanes, D | |
dc.contributor.author | Wideman, JG | |
dc.contributor.author | Maguire, F | |
dc.contributor.author | Stevens, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Sain, D | |
dc.contributor.author | Grau-Bové, X | |
dc.contributor.author | Sebé-Pedrós, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Stajich, JE | |
dc.contributor.author | Paszkiewicz, K | |
dc.contributor.author | Brown, MW | |
dc.contributor.author | Hall, N | |
dc.contributor.author | Wickstead, B | |
dc.contributor.author | Richards, TA | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-02-22T08:43:48Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-01-10 | |
dc.description.abstract | Eukaryotic microbes have three primary mechanisms for obtaining nutrients and energy: phagotrophy, photosynthesis and osmotrophy. Traits associated with the latter two functions arose independently multiple times in the eukaryotes. The Fungi successfully coupled osmotrophy with filamentous growth, and similar traits are also manifested in the Pseudofungi (oomycetes and hyphochytriomycetes). Both the Fungi and the Pseudofungi encompass a diversity of plant and animal parasites. Genome-sequencing efforts have focused on host-associated microbes (mutualistic symbionts or parasites), providing limited comparisons with free-living relatives. Here we report the first draft genome sequence of a hyphochytriomycete 'pseudofungus'; Hyphochytrium catenoides Using phylogenomic approaches, we identify genes of recent viral ancestry, with related viral derived genes also present on the genomes of oomycetes, suggesting a complex history of viral coevolution and integration across the Pseudofungi. H. catenoides has a complex life cycle involving diverse filamentous structures and a flagellated zoospore with a single anterior tinselate flagellum. We use genome comparisons, drug sensitivity analysis and high-throughput culture arrays to investigate the ancestry of oomycete/pseudofungal characteristics, demonstrating that many of the genetic features associated with parasitic traits evolved specifically within the oomycete radiation. Comparative genomics also identified differences in the repertoire of genes associated with filamentous growth between the Fungi and the Pseudofungi, including differences in vesicle trafficking systems, cell-wall synthesis pathways and motor protein repertoire, demonstrating that unique cellular systems underpinned the convergent evolution of filamentous osmotrophic growth in these two eukaryotic groups. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | This project was initiated as part of a BBSRC new investigator grant BB/G00885X and taken forward using funding from an EMBO Young Investigator Award and a Royal Society University Research Fellowship to T.A.R. T.A.R. and B.W. were additionally supported by a Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant (RPG-2014-054). A.M. is supported by a Royal Society Newton Fellowship and J.G.W. is supported by an EMBO Long-Term Fellowship. A.L. is supported by the EU project SINGEK (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015-675752). The University of Exeter OmniLog facility is supported by a Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Award WT105618MA. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 8 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1098/rsob.170184 | |
dc.identifier.other | rsob.170184 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/31618 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Royal Society | en_GB |
dc.relation.source | All relevant data generated for this project can be found at https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-BSST46 or https://github.com/guyleonard/hyphochytrium. Sequencing data can be accessed via the EMBL accessions SRX033129 (Illumina GAiix) and ERS1151585 (Illumina HiSeq). Genomic assemblies of the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes are available under the EMBL accessions: study ID: PRJEB13950, scaffolds: FLMG01000001-FLMG01004758 and Mitochondria: LT578416. | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29321239 | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2018 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. | en_GB |
dc.subject | large DNA virus | en_GB |
dc.subject | oomycete parasitic traits | en_GB |
dc.subject | polarized filamentous growth | en_GB |
dc.subject | secondary plastid endosymbiosis | en_GB |
dc.title | Comparative genomic analysis of the 'pseudofungus' Hyphochytrium catenoides. | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2018-02-22T08:43:48Z | |
exeter.place-of-publication | England | en_GB |
dc.description | This is the final version of the article. Available from Royal Society via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2046-2441 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Open Biology | en_GB |