Comment on 'Single nucleus sequencing reveals evidence of inter-nucleus recombination in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi'

Benjamin Auxier; Anna Bazzicalupo

doi:10.7554/eLife.47301

Comment on 'Single nucleus sequencing reveals evidence of inter-nucleus recombination in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi'

Elife. 2019 Oct 25:8:e47301. doi: 10.7554/eLife.47301.

Authors

Benjamin Auxier¹, Anna Bazzicalupo²

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Genetics, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands.
² Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Montana State University, Bozeman, United States.

Abstract

Chen et al. recently reported evidence for inter-nucleus recombination in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Chen et al., 2018a). Here, we report a reanalysis of their data. After filtering the data by excluding heterozygous sites in haploid nuclei, duplicated regions of the genome, and low-coverage depths base calls, we find the evidence for recombination to be very sparse.

Keywords: AMF; evolutionary biology; fungi; genetics; genomics; recombination.

Publication types

Comment

MeSH terms

Cell Nucleus
Evolution, Molecular
Fungi / genetics
Genome, Fungal
Mycorrhizae*
Recombination, Genetic

Grants and funding

The authors declare that there was no funding for this work.