This unique book covers a broad diversity of fungal systems and provides unique insight into the functions of those fungi in various ecosystems – from soil, to plant, to human. Bringing together fungal genomic information on a variety of lifestyles and traits, the book covers saprotrophism, pathogenesis (including biotrophs, hemibiotrophs, necrotrophs) and symbiosis. Advances in high-throughput sequencing now offer unprecedented opportunities for identification of novel key molecular mechanisms controlling plant-microbe interactions, evolution of fungi and developmentally- and ecologically-relevant traits, this book explores how these massive streams of fungal sequences can be exploited to gain a deeper understanding of the evolution of fungi and their ecological role.
Although tremendous progress has been made in recent years in fungal genomics, thanks to the sequencing of over one hundred fungal genomes, until now no book has used this information to bridge fungal genomics, molecular ecology and ecology. Edited by a recognized leader in fungal genomics and soil metagenomics with over a decade of experience, Genomics & Metagenomics for Harnessing the Ecology of Fungi will be a useful resource for the experienced as well as the new researchers entering the field.
By:
Francis Martin
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 254mm,
Width: 178mm,
Spine: 22mm
Weight: 880g
ISBN: 9781119946106
ISBN 10: 1119946107
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 20 December 2013
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Contributors vii Preface xiii Section 1 Sequencing Fungal Genomes 1 1 A Changing Landscape of Fungal Genomics 3 Igor V. Grigoriev 2 Repeated Elements in Filamentous Fungi with a Focus on Wood-Decay Fungi 21 Claude Murat, Thibaut Payen, Denis Petitpierre, and Jessy Labbé Section 2 Saprotrophic Fungi 41 3 Wood Decay 43 Dan Cullen 4 Aspergilli and Biomass-Degrading Fungi 63 Isabelle Benoit, Ronald P. de Vries, Scott E. Baker, and Sue A. Karagiosis 5 Ecological Genomics of Trichoderma 89 Irina S. Druzhinina and Christian P. Kubicek Section 3 Plant-Interacting Fungi 117 6 Dothideomycetes: Plant Pathogens, Saprobes, and Extremophiles 119 Stephen B. Goodwin 7 Biotrophic Fungi (Powdery Mildews, Rusts, and Smuts) 149 Sébastien Duplessis, Pietro D. Spanu, and Jan Schirawski 8 The Mycorrhizal Symbiosis Genomics 169 Francis Martin and Annegret Kohler 9 Lichen Genomics: Prospects and Progress 191 Martin Grube, Gabriele Berg, ólafur S. Andrésson, Oddur Vilhelmsson, Paul S. Dyer, and Vivian P.W. Miao Section 4 Animal-Interacting Fungi 213 10 Ecogenomics of Human and Animal Basidiomycetous Yeast Pathogens 215 Sheng Sun, Ferry Hagen, Jun Xu, Tom Dawson, Joseph Heitman, James Kronstad, Charles Saunders, and Teun Boekhout 11 Genomics of Entomopathogenic Fungi 243 Chengshu Wang and Raymond J. St. Leger 12 Ecological Genomics of the Microsporidia 261 Nicolas Corradi and Patrick J. Keeling Section 5 Metagenomics and Biogeography of Fungi 279 13 Metagenomics for Study of Fungal Ecology 281 Björn D. Lindahl and Cheryl R. Kuske 14 Metatranscriptomics of Soil Eukaryotic Communities 305 Laurence Fraissinet-Tachet, Roland Marmeisse, Lucie Zinger, and Patricia Luis 15 Fungi in Deep-Sea Environments and Metagenomics 325 Stéphane Mahé, Vanessa Rédou, Thomas Le Calvez, Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse, and Gaëtan Burgaud 16 The Biodiversity, Ecology, and Biogeography of Ascomycetous Yeasts 355 Marc-André Lachance Index 371
THE EDITOR Francis Martin is the Head of Lab of Excellence for Advanced Research on the Biology of Tree and Forest Ecosystems at the French National Institute for Agricultural Science (INRA).
Reviews for The Ecological Genomics of Fungi
I think the volume may succeed in its ambition to serve as a catalyst for further studies by showing researchers venturing into ecological genomics and those already in genomics the width of the field. This may, in turn, further more integrative studies that will benefit our understanding of fungi. (The Quarterly Review of Biology, 1 October 2015)
