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Parental effects in a filamentous fungus: Phenotype, fitness and mechanism.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jul 2023
Villalba de la Peña Mariana, Summanen Pauliina A M, Moghadam Neda N, Kronholm Ilkka
Abstract excerpt
In nature, organisms have to cope with constantly changing environments. In certain conditions, it may be advantageous for the parents to pass on information about the environment, or resources to their offspring. Such transfers are known as parental effects, and they are well documented in plants and animals, but not in other eukaryotes, such as fungi. Many fungi disperse through spores, and fungal spores can...
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