[HN Gopher] Cryptic terrestrial fungus-like fossils of the early...
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       Cryptic terrestrial fungus-like fossils of the early Ediacaran
       Period
        
       Author : bryanrasmussen
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2021-03-02 20:59 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.nature.com)
        
       | zabzonk wrote:
       | When I see things like "Cryptic terrestrial fungus-like fossils",
       | I start thinking that HP Lovecraft was right.
        
       | 1996 wrote:
       | The West loves to dismiss China research, but this is a brilliant
       | paper!
       | 
       | The discussion of the similarity between these fossils and modern
       | actinobacteria and zygomycetes is fascinating: it could be the
       | missing link between bacteria and fungis, as predicted by DNA
       | divergence estimations:
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       | > The diversity of Silurian-Devonian terrestrial fungi implies
       | the existence of fungi in pre-Silurian terrestrial ecosystems, a
       | prediction consistent with molecular clock estimates [5] but not
       | yet conclusively confirmed by the fossil record.
       | 
       | Ref:
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       | [5] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07849-9
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       | Also check the 3d reconstruction in fig 4g to get a better idea
       | of what this fungi looks like
        
         | DetroitThrow wrote:
         | >The West loves to dismiss China research
         | 
         | I know you probably care about the topic, but it seems
         | unnecessary and unrelated to the rest of your otherwise very
         | insightful comment
        
           | 1996 wrote:
           | > it seems unnecessary
           | 
           | Sorry about that, it's something I often see on HN and it
           | hurts.
           | 
           | I could already imagine someone making such a tasteless
           | comment about China - and I don't like to read that and I
           | thought maybe acknowledging the tendency would avoid it.
           | 
           | But skip that. My personal opinion do not matter.
           | 
           | Just read the actual paper, maybe after reading reference 5.
           | If you enjoy phylogenetic research, and how we figure species
           | are related to each other, it's a wonderful moment: first the
           | prediction, then the discovery.
        
             | DetroitThrow wrote:
             | Public forums can get political, I get it.
             | 
             | Thanks for sharing!
        
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