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Natural history of the fungal hypha: how Woronin bodies support a multicellular lifestyle

Gregory Jedd-2007-04-12-Cambridge University Press eBooks
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Fungi are one of three major clades of eukaryotic life that independently evolved multicellular organization. They have radiated into a large variety of terrestrial and aquatic niches, employing strategies ranging from symbiotic to saprobic to pathogenic, and are remarkable for their developmental diversity and ecological ubiquity, with the number of species estimated to exceed one million (Hawksworth et al., 1995).

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Fungi are one of three major clades of eukaryotic life that independently evolved multicellular organization. They have radiated into a large variety of terrestrial and aquatic niches, employing strategies ranging from symbiotic to saprobic to pathogenic, and are remarkable for their developmental diversity and ecological ubiquity, with the number of species estimated to exceed one million (Hawksworth et al., 1995).

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Multicellular organismBiologyHyphaFungal DiversityEcological nicheCladeEcologyNiche

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