News Headline

Distantly related mushrooms gained the ability to make toxin via horizontal gene transfer

Source
Phys.org

Publication Date
2022-05-10

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in China and the U.S. has found evidence that suggests three distantly related types of mushrooms gained their ability to produce a dangerous toxin via horizontal gene transfer sometime in their past.

Content
https://phys.org/news/2022-05-distantly-mushrooms-gained-ability-toxin.html