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Article Dans Une Revue Environmental Microbiology Année : 2019

Fungal ecological strategies reflected in gene transcription ‐ a case study of two litter decomposers

Kerrie Barry
Laure Fauchery
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Kurt Labutti
Emmanuelle Morin

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Microbial communities interplay with their environment through their functional traits that can be a response or an effect on the environment. Here, we explore how a functional trait—the decomposition of organic matter, can be addressed based on genetic markers and how the expression of these markers reflect ecological strategies of two fungal litter decomposer Gymnopus androsaceus and Chalara longipes. We sequenced the genomes of these two fungi, as well as their transcriptomes at different steps of Pinus sylvestris needles decomposition in microcosms. Our results highlighted that if the gene content of the two species could indicate similar potential decomposition abilities, the expression levels of specific gene families belonging to the glycoside hydrolase category reflected contrasting ecological strategies. Actually, C. longipes, the weaker decomposer in this experiment, turned out to have a high content of genes involved in cell wall polysaccharides decomposition but low expression levels, reflecting a versatile ecology compare to the more competitive G. androsaceus with high expression levels of keystone functional genes. Thus, we established that sequential expression of genes coding for different components of the decomposer machinery indicated adaptation to chemical changes in the substrate as decomposition progressed.

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hal-02612520 , version 1 (19-05-2020)

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Florian Barbi, Annegret Kohler, Kerrie Barry, Preetisri Baskaran, Chris Daum, et al.. Fungal ecological strategies reflected in gene transcription ‐ a case study of two litter decomposers. Environmental Microbiology, 2019, 22 (3), pp.1089-1103. ⟨10.1111/1462-2920.14873⟩. ⟨hal-02612520⟩
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