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RE: TIL: Radiation Eating Fungus found at Chernobyl
Having more than one genome would allow for effective use of homologous recombination to correct the damage, so long as there was some way to differentiate the undamaged chain from the damaged chain.
I remember it having some method to tell the 'old/control' vs 'new/mutated' chain, but I've not been able to track down exactly where I had read that right now. I'll add it in here should I be able to track it down.
Cool, its certainly not a fungus that you want to be exposed to, as if you breathe it in, it is can cause fatal meningitis even in non immune compromised individuals. It lives dormant in the lungs until immune system weakness, then travels to and infects the brain and meninges. Not a good fungus!
Doh! This was finally going to be my chance to become a Super Hero!! Lol, jkjk
Definitely a good thing to have noted on here.