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Yeast emerges as hidden third partner in lichen symbiosis (Purdue University)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Jul 2016
(Source. Purdue University). WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - For nearly 150 years, lichens have been the model organisms of symbiosis ... But when the team broadened the data search to include all fungi, they found indications that genes were being expressed differently - unexpectedly, by a fungus that appeared to belong to the Basidiomycota, a completely different phylum than the known fungal partner ... It gives me goose bumps.' ... Writer ... Sources. M....

Woodpeckers Carry Fungi Around To Help Excavate Holes In Trees

Edit IFL Science 24 Mar 2016
Red-cockaded woodpeckers, Picoides borealis, are the only birds that excavate cavities in living pine trees ... The findings are published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B this week ... The researchers discovered a complex symbiotic association between these woodpeckers and the multiple species of Basidiomycota fungi that they carried with them from existing cavities to future excavation sites. RCW = red-cockaded woodpecker. M.A ... R. Soc ... R ... ....

A heat-seeking slingshot (Lehigh University)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Feb 2016
(Source. Lehigh University). Turn on a skillet and let it heat up until it is well above the boiling point of water ... Contrasting topographies ... Howes Jr ... The researchers liken this phenomenon to the action of a slingshot and note that something similar occurs with a filamentous mushroom called Basidiomycota ... But as with the Basidiomycota, the natural tendency toward symmetry creates the slingshot effect that propels the droplet ... (noodl....

Evolution of Mating Systems in Basidiomycetes and the Genetic Architecture Underlying Mating-Type Determination in the Yeast Leucosporidium scottii

Edit Genetics 14 Jul 2015
However, in the Basidiomycota, a unique (tetrapolar) reproductive system emerged in which sexual identity is governed by two unlinked MAT loci, each of which controls independent mechanisms of self/nonself recognition. Tetrapolar-to-bipolar transitions have occurred on multiple occasions in the Basidiomycota, resulting, for example, from linkage of the two MAT loci into a single inheritable unit....

Extensive sampling of basidiomycete genomes demonstrates inadequacy of the white-rot/brown-rot paradigm for wood decay fungi

Edit PNAS 18 Jun 2014
Abstract. Basidiomycota (basidiomycetes) make up 32% of the described fungi and include most wood-decaying species, as well as pathogens and mutualistic symbionts. Wood-decaying basidiomycetes have typically been classified as either white rot or brown rot, based on the ability (in white rot only) to degrade lignin along with cellulose and hemicellulose ... botryosum and J ... ....
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