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Do symbiotic fungi refresh themselves by incorporating their own or closely related spores into existing mycelium?
Author(s) -
Kytöviita MinnaMaarit
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
oikos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.672
H-Index - 179
eISSN - 1600-0706
pISSN - 0030-1299
DOI - 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2000.900318.x
Subject(s) - mycelium , spore , biology , symbiosis , botany , fungal growth , genetics , bacteria
In most symbioses between plants and fungi sex is repressed in the fungal partner. In the notable exception of ectomycorrhizal symbioses, however, both partners frequently reproduce sexually. A possible role of spores is to function as vectors of genomic purging and recombination back to existing parental or to closely related mycelium.