David Hibbett (Clark University) fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he 39 collaborators published a paper tracing how these mushrooms have evolved.Episode TranscriptPaper: A global phylogenomic analysis of the shiitake genus LentinulaThe Lentinula genomes are publicly available on JGI’s MycoCosm data portalThe JGI website also features a highlight summary of the paper: Tracing the Evolution of Shiitake MushroomsThis work was supported by the JGI’s Community Science Program. Find out how to become a JGI User here: https://jgi.doe.gov/user-programs/