Somatic deficiency causes reproductive parasitism in a fungus

Mycelial fusion can favour fungal strains that exploit each other, but the mechanism is not well understood. Here, Grum-Grzhimaylo et al. show that different cheater lineages share similar deficiencies in initiating fusion that nevertheless enable them to preferentially obtain the benefits of fusion...

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Main Authors: Alexey A. Grum-Grzhimaylo, Eric Bastiaans, Joost van den Heuvel, Cristina Berenguer Millanes, Alfons J. M. Debets, Duur K. Aanen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21050-5