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The fungus that came in from the cold: dry rot's pre-adapted ability to invade buildings.
The ISME journal - 1 Mar 2018
Balasundaram S V, Hess J, Durling M B, Moody S C, Thorbek L, Progida C, LaButti K, Aerts A, Barry K, Grigoriev I V, Boddy L, Högberg N, Kauserud H, Eastwood D C, Skrede I
Abstract excerpt
Many organisms benefit from being pre-adapted to niches shaped by human activity, and have successfully invaded man-made habitats. One such species is the dry rot fungus Serpula lacrymans, which has a wide distribution in buildings in temperate and boreal regions, where it decomposes coniferous construction wood. Comparative genomic analyses and growth experiments using this species and its wild relatives...
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