Tangerine: a new family of Starships from lichen-forming fungi
Gulnara M. Tagirdzhanova, Noah E. Brown, Angus Bucknell, Ellen S. Cameron, Robert D. Finn, Mark Blaxter, Megan C. McDonald, Emile Gluck‐Thaler, Nicholas J. Talbot
The paper identifies a new transposable element, Tangerine, in the lichen fungus Xanthoria parietina, showing evidence of horizontal gene transfer and potential role in lichen genome evolution.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Aug 11, 2026Peer-reviewedGenomics