[HN Gopher] The genetic diversity underlying the mating system o...
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       The genetic diversity underlying the mating system of shelf fungi
        
       Author : deesep
       Score  : 39 points
       Date   : 2022-07-09 11:39 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
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       | zasdffaa wrote:
       | Interesting to me though a bit short. Extract
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       | "Some common mushrooms likely have more than 17,000 sexes,
       | researchers report March 31 in PLOS Genetics. [...]
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       | While scientists have long suspected that certain species of
       | fungi have thousands or even tens of thousands of biological
       | sexes, the new research employed cutting edge genetic tools to
       | confirm the extreme diversity of sexes in Trichaptum mushrooms"
        
         | monetus wrote:
         | And this - "The international team of researchers decided to
         | examine species in this genus because they had been studied by
         | scientists previously and were easy to grow in the lab."
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         | There are so many fungi that haven't had their taxonomy studied
         | let alone their genetics; so much to learn.
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         | "The pace of advances in DNA sequencing are just mind
         | boggling," says Joseph Heitman, a geneticist and infectious
         | disease expert at Duke University who wasn't involved in the
         | study but has investigated fungal mating strategies before.
         | "This kind of study would have been cost and time prohibitive
         | even five years ago."
        
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