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Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation Regulate Social Interactions in Filamentous Fungi.
Annual review of microbiology - 8 Sept 2020
Gonçalves A Pedro, Heller Jens, Rico-Ramírez Adriana M, Daskalov Asen, Rosenfield Gabriel, Glass N Louise
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Social cooperation impacts the development and survival of species. In higher taxa, kin recognition occurs via visual, chemical, or tactile cues that dictate cooperative versus competitive interactions. In microbes, the outcome of cooperative versus competitive interactions is conferred by identity at allorecognition loci, so-called kind recognition. In syncytial filamentous fungi, the acquisition of...
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