{"id":6548,"date":"2018-12-19T17:01:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T22:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6548"},"modified":"2019-01-29T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T22:25:00","slug":"massive-fungus-shows-little-mutation-over-2500-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/massive-fungus-shows-little-mutation-over-2500-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive fungus shows little mutation over 2,500 years <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org\/lookup\/doi\/10.1098\/rspb.2018.2233\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Published\u00a0December 19, 2018 17:01 ET<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/press.royalsociety.org\/thePressRelease.aspx?id=19119\" target=\"_blank\">Brief<\/a> from the Royal Society)<br \/>\nResearchers identified a single individual of the fungus <em>Armillaria gallica<\/em> that was extremely large \u2013 covering hundreds of tree root systems over approximately 75 hectares of forest \u2013 and at least 2,500 years old. Using whole-genome sequencing, the scientists determined that the specimen\u2019s mutations reflected its historical growth from a single point within the forest. The overall rate of mutation, however, was extremely low. The specimen\u2019s genome represents extreme stability compared to the extreme instability typified by cancer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lead author: <\/strong>James Anderson, University of Toronto &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:jb.anderson@utoronto.ca\" target=\"_blank\">jb.anderson@utoronto.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Published\u00a0December 19, 2018 17:01 ET (Brief from the Royal Society) Researchers identified a single individual of the fungus Armillaria gallica that was extremely large \u2013 covering hundreds of tree root systems over approximately 75 hectares of forest \u2013 and at least 2,500 years old. Using whole-genome sequencing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Armillaria-mushroom.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1HC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6551,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548\/revisions\/6551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}