Coprinopsis cinerea

Coprinopsis cinerea
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Psathyrellaceae
Genus: Coprinopsis
Species:
C. cinerea
Binomial name
Coprinopsis cinerea
(Schaeff.) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo (2001)
Synonyms[1]

Agaricus cinereus Schaeff. (1774)
Agaricus radians Batsch (1783)
Agaricus macrorhizus Pers. (1796)
Coprinus cinereus (Schaeff.) Gray (1821)
Coprinus fimetarius var. cinereus (Schaeff.) Fr. (1838)
Coprinus fimetarius var. macrorhizus (Pers.) Sacc. (1887)
Coprinus macrorhizus (Pers.) Rea (1922)
Coprinus delicatulus Apinis (1965)
Hormographiella aspergillata Guarro, Gené & De Vroey (1992)

Coprinopsis cinerea
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Gills on hymenium
Cap is conical
Hymenium is free
Stipe is bare
Spore print is black
Ecology is saprotrophic
Edibility is edible

Coprinopsis cinerea is a species of mushroom in the family Psathyrellaceae. Commonly known as the gray shag, it is edible, but must be used promptly after collecting.[2]

Coprinopsis cinerea is an important model organism for studying fungal sex and mating types, mushroom development,[3] and the evolution of multicellularity of fungi. The genome sequence was published in 2010.[4] It is considered to be particularly suited organism to study meiosis, due to its synchronous meiotic development and prolonged prophase. [5]

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  3. ^ Kües, U (2000). "Life history and developmental processes in the basidiomycete Coprinus cinereus". Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews. 64 (2): 316–53. doi:10.1128/MMBR.64.2.316-353.2000. PMC 98996. PMID 10839819.
  4. ^ Stajich JE, Wilke SK, Ahren D, et al. (June 29, 2010). "Insights into evolution of multicellular fungi from the assembled chromosomes of the mushroom Coprinopsis cinerea (Coprinus cinereus)". PNAS. 107 (26): 11889–11894. doi:10.1073/pnas.1003391107. PMC 2900686. PMID 20547848.
  5. ^ Burns C, Stajich JE, Rechtsteiner A, et al. (2010). "Analysis of the basidiomycete Coprinopsis cinerea reveals conservation of the core meiotic expression program over half a billion years of evolution". PLOS Genetics. 6 (9): e1001135. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1001135. PMC 2944786. PMID 20885784.