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Communication of Fungi on Individual, Species, Kingdom, and Above Kingdom Levels

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Part of the book series: The Mycota ((MYCOTA,volume 15))

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In nature, fungi interchange information between cells of a same individual, between individuals of a species, and between different species within and above taxonomical clades up to interkingdom communication. Fungal communication mainly functions by emission of chemicals from a sender to be transmitted to a recipient in order to induce there specific reactions. The best understood messengers are pheromones, peptides acting in fungal mating and sexual reproduction. Various kinds of secondary metabolites (e.g. sesquiterpenes, products of lipid degradation and many others) are appointed as messengers of fungal communication. Generally, communication is highly specific, although the same compound might be used in parallel for different addressees and different purposes. Fungal communication serves e.g. in nutrient absorption and disposition, in reproduction and recombination, in distribution of species, and, lastly, in the coordinated formation of ecological communities including also the targeted suppression of competitors.

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The authors are very grateful to U. Helle, A. Olbrich, and E. Fritz for supplying the photos on ectomycorrhizal fungi. Research in our laboratory on fungal volatiles and on mites is done in collaboration with P. Thakeow, P. Plašil, and S. Schütz from the Division Forest Zoology and Forest Conservation at the Büsgen-Institute Göttingen, and research on mating type genes in collaboration with international consortia on analysing genomes of higher basidiomycetes supplied by the DOE Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, California. Research on L. bicolor is done within the framework of the Evoltree programme of the European Community.

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Kües, U., Navarro-González, M. (2009). Communication of Fungi on Individual, Species, Kingdom, and Above Kingdom Levels. In: Anke, T., Weber, D. (eds) Physiology and Genetics. The Mycota, vol 15. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00286-1_5

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