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Article Dans Une Revue Nature Communications Année : 2014

Multiple recent horizontal transfers of a large genomic region in cheese making fungi

Maurizio Ceppi
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Emmanuel Conseiller
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Aaron Bensimon
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Tatiana Giraud
Yves Brygoo
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While the extent and impact of horizontal transfers in prokaryotes are widely acknowledged, their importance to the eukaryotic kingdom is unclear and thought by many to be anecdotal. Here we report multiple recent transfers of a huge genomic island between Penicillium spp. found in the food environment. Sequencing of the two leading filamentous fungi used in cheese making, P. roqueforti and P. camemberti, and comparison with the penicillin producer P. rubens reveals a 575 kb long genomic island in P. roqueforti—called Wallaby—present as identical fragments at non-homologous loci in P. camemberti and P. rubens.Wallaby is detected in Penicillium collections exclusively in strains from food environments. Wallaby encompasses about 250 predicted genes, some of which are probably involved in competition with microorganisms. The occurrence of multiple recent eukaryotic transfers in the food environment provides strong evidence for the importance of this understudied and probably underestimated phenomenon in eukaryotes.
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hal-01302473 , version 1 (14-04-2016)

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Kevin Cheeseman, Jeanne Ropars, Pierre Renault, Joelle Dupont, Jerome Gouzy, et al.. Multiple recent horizontal transfers of a large genomic region in cheese making fungi. Nature Communications, 2014, 5 (5), pp.2876. ⟨10.1038/ncomms3876⟩. ⟨hal-01302473⟩
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