Cuing environmental responses in fungi
Thursday, May 26, 2016 - 14:20
in Biology & Nature
Sensory perception lies at the heart of adaptation to changing conditions, and helps fungi to improve growth and recycle organic waste, and to know when and how to infect a plant or animal host. New results based on characterizing and then conducting a comparative analysis of two genome sequences shed new light on the evolution of sensory perception in fungi.