Mycena mushrooms have ’massively expanded’ genomes to make them more adaptable

Mycena_epipterygia2 CREDIT Arne Aronsen

Source: Arne Aronsen

A study of multiple Mycena mushroom species, also known as ‘bonnets’, reported in the journal Cell Genomics on June 27 has found that they have unexpectedly large genomes.

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