Zsolt Merényi

This study identifies novel genes and transcriptomic changes during sporulation in Coprinopsis cinerea, highlighting functionally dark genes involved in spore formation.

This study characterizes GCD1, a Con7-related transcription factor in Coprinopsis cinerea, showing its role in fruiting body morphogenesis and evolutionary conservation across fungi.

This study identifies SRR1 as a conserved regulator of sporulation and ballistospory in mushroom-forming fungi, revealing its role in spore morphogenesis and identifying downstream targets.

The paper improves the functional annotation of the mushroom-forming fungus Coprinopsis cinerea by integrating a chromosome-level genome assembly with extensive expression profiling across multiple conditions.

The paper identifies a novel gene family, Snowball (snb), essential for fruiting body development in Agaricomycetes fungi, showing its role in differentiation through mutant analysis and transcriptomics.

The paper introduces ContScout, a tool to remove contamination from genomes, showing it reduces bias in evolutionary analyses by eliminating spurious gene origins and inflated gene loss rates.

This study identifies horizontal gene transfer events in Armillaria fungi that contribute to plant biomass degradation and pathogenicity.

This study constructs a transcriptomic atlas of mushroom development using six species and genome comparisons to identify conserved genes involved in complex multicellularity.