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Table 3 Categories of the symbiosis-related genes according to the functional information obtained from the BLASTX and literature searches

From: In vitro resynthesis of lichenization reveals the genetic background of symbiosis-specific fungal-algal interaction in Usnea hakonensis

Category name

Fungal genes

Algal genes

Amino acid synthesis

1

3

Carbohydrate metabolism

2

1

Cell wall organization

5

0

Cellular respiration

3

0

Cytochrome P450

5

0

Development

3

0

Lipid metabolism

7

2

Methylation

0

1

Nitrogen metabolism

0

2

Phosphate metabolism

0

1

Photosynthesis

0

4

Proteolysis

5

1

Redox

2

0

Secondary metabolism

1

0

Signal transduction

1

1

Stress response

3

2

Transcription/translation

3

25

Transport

11

5

Xenobiotic metabolism

3

1

Uncategorized

3

3

Total

58

52