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Hyphal fusion and multigenomic structure

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  • James D. Bever

    (Indiana University)

  • Mei Wang

    (University of Chicago)

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Arising from: T. E. Pawlowska & J. W. Taylor Nature 427, 733–737 (2004); Pawlowska & Tylor reply Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi (Glomeromycota) reproduce asexually, are multinucleate, and have high genetic variation within single cells. Pawlowska and Taylor1 find that genetic variation within AM fungal cells is not lost as a result of segregation, and they interpret this as evidence that the variation is present within each nucleus and that all nuclei within individual spores are genetically identical (that is, homokaryotic). Here we show that their empirical observations are also consistent with a distribution of genetic variation between nuclei within spores (that is, heterokaryotic), given that there is fusion of fungal hyphae. This analysis, together with complementary findings2,3,4, suggests that AM fungi have an unusual genomic structure in which multiple, genetically diverse nuclei are maintained within cells through remixing by hyphal fusion.

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  • James D. Bever & Mei Wang, 2005. "Hyphal fusion and multigenomic structure," Nature, Nature, vol. 433(7022), pages 3-4, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:433:y:2005:i:7022:d:10.1038_nature03294
    DOI: 10.1038/nature03294
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