The Fungal Kingdom
The Fungal Kingdom
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2019
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Sarah J. Araldi-Brondolo;Joseph E. Spraker;Justin P. Shaffer;Emma H. Woytenko;David A. Baltrus;Rachel E. Gallery;Elizabeth Arnold
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Sarah J. Araldi-Brondolo;Joseph E. Spraker;Justin P. Shaffer;Emma H. Woytenko;David A. Baltrus;Rachel E. Gallery;Elizabeth Arnold
INTRODUCTION From the saprotrophs that decay plant material to the pathogens and mutualists that shape plant population dynamics at local and regional scales, fungi are major drivers of ecosystem health, plant productivity, and sustainability in all major biomes (1–5). The ecological roles of such fungi are driven by their own genomic and epigenetic architecture, as well as that of their hosts, often with strong influences from the environmental context in which such interactions occur (1–9). The environmental context of fungal biology has long been defined in terms of abiotic factors, including those that impact fungal growth and gene expression directly and those that influence the health, growth, structure, or defenses of hosts or substrates with which fungi interact (Fig. 1). Increasingly, however, it is clear that these environmental contexts also include biotic components—that is, additional, interacting species that directly or indirectly alter the outcomes of fungushost associations. Foremost among these in terms of major effects are endohyphal microbial symbionts, including viruses and bacteria that occur within living fungal hyphae and can profoundly alter fungal phenotypes (i.e., endofungal microbes or microbial endosymbionts) (10–13). Phenotypic modulation of fungi by endohyphal microbes can cause major shifts in fungal substrate use, enzyme production, thermotolerance, virulence, and the early phases of symbiotic establishment. Much like horizontal gene transfer (HGT) can alter diverse aspects of an organism’s phenotype in ecological time, so too can acquisition (or loss) of a microbial symbiont change a virulent fungal pathogen to an avirulent lifestyle, alter the reproductive strategy of the fungus from sexual to asexual, increase fungal secretion of hormones and other signaling molecules relevant to plants, or broaden the niche space and competitive ability of fungi in ways that change the balance of fungal community dynamics (see references 11–19). In these ways endohyphal microbes are important not only in ecological time, but also in the evolution of fungi and reciprocal coevolutionary responses from their hosts (Fig. 1). Thus, understanding the mechanisms underlying symbiotic modulation of fungal phenotypes by microbes has the potential to inform not only fungal ecology but also the trajectory of fungal evolution, especially with regard to convergent phenotypes or ecological modes (e.g., endophytism) for which genomic markers and evolutionary shifts remain elusive. Such questions, paired with growing interest in applications of microbial endosymbionts of fungi, frame an exciting time as mycologists define myriad factors that shape fungal functional traits in short-term ecological snapshots and over evolutionary time. Broadly defined under de Bary’s conceptualization as “the living together of unlike organisms” (20), symbioses between fungi and endohyphal microbes encompass mutualistic, parasitic, and commensal interactions, many of which may be context-dependent in terms of their importance or effects. The best known microbes that occur as endohyphal symbionts represent two domains of life. The first are acellular microbes such as mycoviruses. Mycoviruses (viruses that infect fungi) usually are double-stranded RNA viruses (ca. 70% of known mycoviruses), positive-sense, single-stranded RNA viruses (ca. 30%), and rarely, geminiviruses (21).