Alejandro Miralles-Durán

TL;DR: The genome duplication provided the means to improve signal transduction for enhanced perception of environmental signals and will help to understand the role of genome dynamics in the evolution of sensory perception in eukaryotes.

TL;DR: It is shown that mucoromycotina fungi except Umbelopsis ramanniana, which is an early diverging lineage within the mucoralean fungi, encode only cry-DASH, and this finding is a unique example of CPF evolution where a canonical CPD-photolyase was lost but its function was maintained by cry- DASH.

TL;DR: This study used culture collections and publicly available transcriptomes to demonstrate that mycoviruses are abundant in laboratory cultures of early-diverging fungal lineages, and suggests that the culture-based assay is a cost-effective means to quickly assess whether a laboratory culture is virally infected.

TL;DR: The role of the fungal-specific regulatory velvet complexes in development and secondary metabolism (SM) in N. crassa and A. nidulans is reported and intergenera similarities and differences of velvet roles according to different life styles, niches and ontogenetic processes are underlined.

TL;DR: MadC is unlikely to be a photosensor, yet is a fundamental link in the photoresponses from blue light perceived by the conserved White Collar complex with Ras signaling in two distantly-related filamentous fungal species.