Mushrooms: Morphological complexity in the fungi

摘要

The PNAS paper by Stajich et al. (1) describes a superbly assembled and annotated genome of one of the most morphologically complex fungi, the "inky cap" mushroom Coprinopsis cinerea, and illustrates the accomplishments that can be made when working with a genetic model organism and the challenges that lie ahead if we are to truly understand how genomes relate to the evolution of organism complexity (Fig. 1).