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The Fitness of Filamentous Fungi

An organism’s fitness encompasses survival, growth and reproduction. The fitness of filamentous fungi appears complicated because the fungal individual and fungal life cyles are unlike animal or plant individuals or life cycles. But the fitness of a filamentous fungus can be measured, and particularly when data on different aspects of fitness are correlated so that one aspect can be used to judge the entire fitness of a specific individual.


Ascobolus spores being launched from ascus.
Dispersal
A population of Coccomyces dentatus growing on a leaf. Individuals are delineated by black lines, signalling antagonistic interactions.
Population Biology of
Modular Organisms
Spores of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi from a North Carolina field.
Cooperation & Interactions
A phylogeny of one group of transposable elements in Amanita.
Genetic Architecture
of Symbiosis
A flyer posted in parks around San Francisco, to warn mushroom hunters about Amanita phalloides.
Invasion Biology &
Conservation of Fungi
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