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Somatic deficiency causes reproductive parasitism in a fungus
2020-08-22
Abstract excerpt
Some multicellular organisms can fuse because mergers potentially provide mutual benefits. However, experimental evolution in the fungus Neurospora crassa has demonstrated that free fusion of mycelia favours cheater lineages, but the mechanism and evolutionary dynamics of dishonest exploitation are unknown. Here we show, paradoxically, that all convergently evolved cheater lineages have similar fusion deficiencie...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 1af51eae-2e55-5b60-8a55-5ca7723c1e1e
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.08.21.260869