Major transitions made easy? In search of genetic preconditions that help the repeated evolution and loss of fungal multicellularity

Project Information

CONVERGENCE

Grant agreement ID: 101086900

DOI

10.3030/101086900

EC signature date 11 May 2023

Start date 1 July 2023

End date 30 June 2028

Funded under

• European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 997 688,00

EU contribution

€ 1 997 688,00

Coordinated by

HUN-REN Szegedi Biologiai Kutatokozpont
Hungary

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (7)

Orthrus: a Pumilio-family gene involved in fruiting body and dark stipe development in Coprinopsis cinerea

Author(s): Benedek Szathmári, Balázs Bálint, Botond Hegedüs, Máté Virágh, Zhihao Hou, Xiao-Bin Liu, Hongli Wu, Csenge Földi, Julien Gagneur, Johann Promeuschel, Árpád Csernetics, László G. Nagy
Published in: Frontiers in Fungal Biology, Issue 6, 2025, ISSN 2673-6128
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/FFUNB.2025.1633301

Redox robustness drives LPMO evolution

Author(s): Iván Ayuso-Fernández, Tom Z. Emrich-Mills, Ole Golten, Zarah Forsberg, Kelsi R. Hall, László G. Nagy, Morten Sørlie, Åsmund Kjendseth Røhr, Vincent G. H. Eijsink
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 123, 2026, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/PNAS.2521617123

Morphogenesis, starvation, and light responses in a mushroom-forming fungus revealed by long-read sequencing and extensive expression profiling

Author(s): Botond Hegedüs, Neha Sahu, Balázs Bálint, Sajeet Haridas, Viktória Bense, Zsolt Merényi, Máté Virágh, Hongli Wu, Xiao-Bin Liu, Robert Riley, Anna Lipzen, Maxim Koriabine, Emily Savage, Jie Guo
Published in: Cell Genomics, Issue 5, 2025, ISSN 2666-979X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.XGEN.2025.100853

Functional characterization of a Con7-related transcription factor in Coprinopsis cinerea indicates evolutionary conservation of morphogenetic roles

Author(s): Hongli Wu, Zsolt Merényi, Máté Virágh, Xiao-Bin Liu, Botond Hegedüs, Zhihao Hou, Edit Ábrahám, Anett Fürtön, Zsolt Kristóffy, Zoltán Lipinszki, László G. Nagy
Published in: Microbiological Research, Issue 306, 2026, ISSN 0944-5013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.MICRES.2026.128462

An evolutionarily ancient transcription factor drives spore morphogenesis in mushroom-forming fungi

Author(s): Zhihao Hou, Zsolt Merényi, Yashu Yang, Yan Zhang, Árpád Csernetics, Balázs Bálint, Botond Hegedüs, Csenge Földi, Hongli Wu, Zsolt Kristóffy, Edit Ábrahám, Nikolett Miklovics, Máté Virágh,
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 35, 2025, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.CUB.2025.02.025

The biodiversity, genomics, ecology and evolution of mushroom-forming fungi

Author(s): László G. Nagy, Sara Branco, Dimitrios Floudas, David S. Hibbett, Lotus Lofgren, Francis Martin, Zsolt Merényi, Jonathan M. Plett, Anne Pringle, Torda Varga
Published in: Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Issue 2, 2026, ISSN 3005-0677
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S44358-025-00107-Z

A timetree of Fungi dated with fossils and horizontal gene transfers

Author(s): Lénárd L. Szánthó, Zsolt Merényi, Philip Donoghue, Toni Gabaldón, László G. Nagy, Gergely J. Szöllősi, Eduard Ocaña-Pallarès
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 9, 2025, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41559-025-02851-Z