Fungal social barriers: to fuse, or not to fuse, that is the question

AP Gonçalves, NL Glass - Communicative & integrative biology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… In particular, many fungi, such as the filamentous Neurospora crassa, rely on conspecific …
Here we present an overview of the recent advances made in the field of fungal allorecognition, …

[PDF][PDF] To fuse or not to fuse

J Brusini, C Robin, A Franc - … view of self-recognition systems. J …, 2013 - researchgate.net
… the biological features common to fungi and colonial marine … from the question of the evolution
of individuality in fungi and … can be transferred across vegetative barriers [112], may be a …

Fungal individualism

NK Todd, ADM Rayner - Science Progress (1933-), 1980 - JSTOR
… of 'resting bodies' which form as outgrowths from the fused … In these fungi also, where fewer
barriers to heterokaryosis … asked a simple question: 'To what extent can fungi be considered …

Thinking Mycologically: Utilizing Fungi as Metaphor

AW Lowe - 2024 - search.proquest.com
… where the bodies of two characters fuse into one, as a physical … and ability of fungi to
deconstruct the barrier between nature/… fungi to describe race does not evoke the same questions

Syncytia in fungi

AP Mela, AM Rico-Ramírez, NL Glass - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
… In the slime mold, Physarum polycephalum, individual amoebae fuse to form a large mass
… A major technical issue for filamentous fungal researchers tackling these questions is the …

Fungal community ecology: a hybrid beast with a molecular master

KG Peay, PG Kennedy, TD Bruns - Bioscience, 2008 - academic.oup.com
… reduced the barriers to sampling and identifying fungi from … Hyphae may successfully fuse
if they belong to a single … progress, we still have more questions than answers about the …

Regular bottlenecks and restrictions to somatic fusion prevent the accumulation of mitochondrial defects in Neurospora

E Bastiaans, DK Aanen… - … of the Royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… of a fungal colony, whereas the latter fuse with other tubes or hyphae (figure 1a) [21]. The
hyphae of a growing colony constantly branch and fuse, … as an evolutionary problem of conflicts …

Highly conserved, but highly specific: somatic cell–cell fusion in filamentous fungi

A Fleißner, AG Oostlander, L Well - Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
… spore germlings render their individuality and merge via cell–cell fusion into a … questions.
Considering the broad importance of fungi as beneficial or harmful organisms, these questions

A dialogue-like cell communication mechanism is conserved in filamentous ascomycete fungi and mediates interspecies interactions

H Haj Hammadeh, A Serrano… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
questions in the life sciences. … , fungi have evolved multilayered allorecognition systems,
which ensure that only genetically compatible and oftentimes identical individuals merge into …

The Predicted Mannosyltransferase GT69-2 Antagonizes RFW-1 To Regulate Cell Fusion in Neurospora crassa

Y Li, J Heller, AP Gonçalves, NL Glass - Mbio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
… However, barriers to somatic cell fusion between genetically … fungal cell wall remodeling
during growth and development. … GT69-2 and RFW-1, we fused GFP to the N-terminal region of …