ROPARS , Jeanne

Penicillium is a diverse fungal genus with hundreds of species occurring worldwide in various substrates, from soil to food, and with various lifestyles, from necrotrophic pathogenicity to endophytic mutualism. Several species are important for human affairs, being widely used in industry, such as the penicillin-producer P. rubens, the two...

Domestication is an excellent model for studies ofadaptation because it involves recent and strong selectionon a few, identified traits [1–5]. Few studieshave focused on the domestication of fungi, withnotable exceptions [6–11], despite their importanceto bioindustry [12] and to a general understandingof adaptation in eukaryotes [5]....