If you've played the video game The Last of Us, or watched any of the recent TV adaptation, you'll be familiar with the idea of a mutated fungus infecting most of humanity – and there's now some science to match up with that science fiction.
from the Duke University School of Medicine in North Carolina.The team looked in detail at a pathogenic fungus called, putting it in lab conditions and raising its temperature from 30 °C to 37 °C . These heat stresses significantly changed the genetic landscape of the fungi.
Three jumping genes in particular were tracked: T1, Tcn12, and Cnl1. The shifts they made within genes and the genome suggested that they could be altering the way that genes were coded, and might possibly introduce drug resistance. It's still not fully clear what the end result of this increased activity might be.
"We saw evidence of all 3 transposable elements mobilizing in the fungus genome within just 10 days of infecting the mouse,""These mobile elements are likely to contribute to adaptation in the environment and during an infection. This could happen even faster because heat stress speeds up the number of mutations occurring."
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