Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Somatic deficiency causes reproductive parasitism in a fungus
A. A. Grum-Grzhimaylo, E. Bastiaans, J. van den Heuvel…·D. K. Aanen
The paper shows that cheater lineages in Neurospora crassa evolve fusion deficiencies, allowing them to exploit fusion partners and increase their nuclear representation in reproductive hyphae.
DOI 10.1038/s41467-021-21050-5