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I am an INSA Honorary Scientist in the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad. This article is dedicated to Saswati Sengupta, who first noticed the unusual morphology of erg-1 and erg-3 colonies.
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Kasbekar, D.P. An evolutionarily conserved mechanism underlies interspecies cell–cell signalling in fungi. J Biosci 48, 2 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12038-023-00327-5
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