László G. Nagy - Selected Publications#

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Virágh M., Merényi Z., Csernetics A., Földi C., Sahu N., Liu XB., Hibbett DS., Nagy LG. (2021) Evolutionary Morphogenesis of Sexual Fruiting Bodies in Basidiomycota: Toward a New Evo-Devo Synthesis. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews in press [citations NA, IF:14.17, in this paper we review fungal evo-devo developments and argus that phylogenetic and developmental/genetic approaches should be integrated to understand character evolution]

Miyauchi S*, Kiss E*, Kuo A*, Drula E, Kohler A, Sánchez-García M, Morin E, Andreopoulos B, Barry KW, Bonito G, Buée M, Carver A, Chen C, Cichocki N, Clum A, Culley D, Crous PW, Fauchery L, Girlanda M, Hayes RD, Kéri Z, LaButti K, Lipzen A, Lombard V, Magnuson J, Maillard F, Murat C, Nolan M, Ohm RA, Pangilinan J, Pereira MF, Perotto S, Peter M, Pfister S, Riley R, Sitrit Y, Stielow JB, Szöllősi G, Žifčáková L, Štursová M, Spatafora JW, Tedersoo L, Vaario LM, Yamada A, Yan M, Wang P, Xu J, Bruns T, Baldrian P, Vilgalys R, Dunand C, Henrissat B, Grigoriev IV*, Hibbett D*, Nagy GL*, Martin FM*. (2020) Large-scale genome sequencing of mycorrhizal fungi provides insights into the early evolution of symbiotic traits. Nat Commun. 11(1):5125. [* - equal contribution, 65 citations, IF: 14.92, the first large-scale analysis clarifying the evolution of fungal mycorrhizal mutualists]

Merényi Z., Prasanna AN., Zheng, W., Hegedüs, B., Bálint, B., Townsend JP., Nagy, GL. (2020) Unmatched level of molecular convergence among deeply divergent complex multicellular fungi. Molecular Biology and Evolution 37(8):2228–2240. [7 citations, IF: 16.24, this paper represents a major step in understanding the molecular basis of convergent evolution]

Kiss E., Hegedüs, B., Varga, T., Merényi, T., Kószó, T., Bálint, B., Prasanna AN., Riquelme, M., Takeshita, N., Nagy, GL. (2019) Comparative genomics reveals the origin of fungal hyphae and multicellularity. Nature Communications 10, 4080. [39 citations; IF: 11.880, shows that multicellularity evolved by gene regulatory network rewiring rather than extensive gene duplication]

Varga, T., Krizsán, K., Földi, C., Dima, B., Sánchez-García, M., Sánchez-Ramírez, S., Szőllősi, GJ., Szárkándi, JG., Papp, V., Albert, L., Andreopoulos, W., Angelini, C., Antonín, V., Barry, KW., Bougher, NL., Buchanan, P., Buyck, B., Bense, V., Catcheside, P., Chovatia, M., Cooper, J., Dämon, W., Desjardin, D., Finy, P., Geml, J., Haridas, S., Hughes, K., Justo, AF., Karasiński, D., Kautmanova, I., Kiss, B., Kocsubé, S., Kotiranta, H., LaButti, KM., Lechner, BE., Liimatainen, K., Lipzen, A., Lukács, Z., Mihaltcheva, S., Morgado, L., Niskanen, T., Noordeloos, ME., Ohm, RA., Ortiz-Santana, B., Ovrebo, C., Rácz, N., Riley, R., Savchenko, A., Shiryaev, A., Soop, K., Spirin, V., Szebenyi, C., Tomšovský, M., Tulloss, RE., Uehling, J., Grigoriev, IV., Vágvölgyi, C., Papp, T., Martin, FM., Miettinen, O., Hibbett, DS., Nagy, GL. (2019) Megaphylogeny resolves global patterns of mushroom evolution. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3(4):668. [93 citations, IF: 10.965, large-scale phylogeny and diversification patterns in mushroom-forming fungi]

Nagy, GL., Kovács, GM., Krizsán, K. (2018) Complex multicellularity in fungi: evolutionary convergence, single origin, or both? Biological Reviews [53 citations; IF: 11.7; a synthesis on the evolution of complex multicellularity in fungi]

Sipos, G., Prasanna, AN., Walter, MC., O'Connor, E., Bálint, B., Krizsán, K., Kiss, B., Hess, J., Varga, T., Slot, J., Riley, R., Bóka, B., Rigling, D., Barry, K., Lee, J., Mihaltcheva, S., LaButti, K., Lipzen, A., Waldron, R., Moloney, NM., Sperisen, C., Kredics, L., Vágvölgyi, C., Patrignani, A., Fitzpatrick, D., Nagy, I., Doyle, S., Anderson, J., Grigoriev, IV., Güldener, U., Münsterkötter, M., Nagy, GL. (2017) Genome expansion and lineage-specific genetic innovations in the forest pathogenic fungi Armillaria. Nature Ecology and Evolution 1(12):1931-1941. [96 citations; IF=NA; shows that unique genome expansion underlies pathogenicity and multicellularity in the fungal genus Armillaria; received intense media attention (picked up by >120 media, incl. The NY Times)]

Nagy, GL., Riley R, Bergmann PJ, Krizsan K, Martin FM, Grigoriev I, Cullen D, Hibbett D (2017) Genetic bases of fungal wood decay predicted by phylogenomic analyses of gene-phenotype coevolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution 34:35-44 [53 citations; IF: 10.217; introduces a novel comparative genomic method for predicting gene - trait associations based on gene duplication/loss patterns]

Kohler A*, Kuo A*, Nagy, GL.*, Morin E*, et al. (2015) Convergent losses of decay mechanisms and rapid turnover of symbiosis genes in mycorrhizal mutualists. Nature Genetics 47: 410-415. [693 citations; IF: 31.616; reconstruct the evolution of mycorrhizal symbioses based on new genomic data]

Nagy, GL., Ohm R, Kovacs GM, Floudas D, Riley R, Gacser A, Davis JM, Doty SL, de Hoog S, Spatafora J, Martin F, Grigoriev IV, Hibbett DS. (2014) Latent homology and convergent regulatory evolution underlies the repeated emergence of yeasts. Nat Comms 5:4471 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5471. [103 citations; IF: 10.742; introduces a novel method for reconstructing gene duplication/loss histories in whole genomes]