bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.31.928846; this version posted February 1, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 1 Research Article 2 The architecture of metabolism maximizes biosynthetic diversity in the largest class of 3 fungi 4 Authors: 5 Emile Gluck-Thaler, Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University Columbus, OH, USA, 6 and Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 7 Sajeet Haridas, US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National 8 Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA 9 Manfred Binder, TechBase, R-Tech GmbH, Regensburg, Germany 10 Igor V. Grigoriev, US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National 11 Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA, and Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of 12 California, Berkeley, CA 13 Pedro W. Crous, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Uppsalalaan 8, 3584 CT Utrecht, The 14 Netherlands 15 Joseph W. Spatafora, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, OR, USA 16 Kathryn Bushley, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, MN, USA 17 Jason C. Slot, Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University Columbus, OH, USA 18 corresponding author:
[email protected] 19 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.31.928846; this version posted February 1, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 19 Abstract: 20 Background - Ecological diversity in fungi is largely defined by metabolic traits, including the 21 ability to produce secondary or "specialized" metabolites (SMs) that mediate interactions with 22 other organisms.