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Opisthokonts

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Cells, when flagellate, possess a single posterior flagellum

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How many species of fungi are bioluminescent

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> 70

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Are fungi usually haploid or diploid?

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Haploid

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Describe fungal cell walls

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  • Contain glucans (plant) and chitin (arthropod exoskeleton)
  • rigid
  • unique composition
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What links fungi with oomycetes?

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Hyphae

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Describe hyphae

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  • filamentous growth structures
  • grow at the tip
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Describe dimorphic fungi

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Can switch between yeast and hyphal forms in response to their environment

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How do unicellular years reproduce?

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Budding or fission

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Describe the current fungal phyla

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  • 8 phyla
  • 12 subphyla
  • 46 classes
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Describe microsporidia

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Intracellular parasites of all groups of animals

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Describe chytridiomycota

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  • flagellated
  • motile zoospores
  • common in aquatic environments
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Describe neocallimastigomycetes

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Anaerobes found in the rumen and hindgut of herbivores

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Describe zoopagomhcota

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Pathogens and commensale of animals, rarely plants

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Describe mycoromycota

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  • mostly associations with pants
  • subphylum Glomeromycota
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Describe Glomeromycota

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Have arbuscular mycorrhizae

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Describe ascomycota

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Diverse - include yeasts and common moulds such as Aspergillus

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Basidiomycota

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  • mushrooms and toadstools
  • rusts and smuts
  • septal pore swelling (regulates cytoplasmic streaming, restricts nuclear/organelle movement)
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How many fungal species are there?

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2.2-3.8 mill

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How many fungal
Species are currently
Accepted?

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120,000

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Describe Esher common

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  • 3,400 fungal sp
  • 420 vascular plant sp
  • 8:1
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Describe slapton ley

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  • 1,136 fungal sp
  • 88 vascular plant sp
  • 12.9:1
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What percentage of known fungal species are marine?

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<1%

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What percentage of terrestrial plants depend on mycorrhizal fungi?

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  • 95%
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How many species of mycorrhizal fungi are there?

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~6000

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Laccases
Modification of lignin
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What makes fungal absorption efficient?
High SA:Vol
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What does absorption probably constrain wrt fungi?
Hyphal diameter (not hyphal length)
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Basidiomycota
Lignin degradation (the only organisms that can do it)
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Give an example of saprophytic fungi
Wood rotting fungi
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Give examples of symbiotic fungi
1. Mycorrhizae 2. Lichens
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Give examples of mycoses
1. Athletes food (human) 2. Chytridiomycosis (frogs) 3. What stem rust (plants)
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How big is a yeast cell?
3-4μm
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How big is a hyphae?
2-10μm
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Describe Armillaria ostoyae
- humongous fungus - largest living organism - 10km SA - 8500years old
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Rhizomorph
- Multiple hyphae oriented in parallel - transport nutrients long distances
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Why does the fungal cell wall need to withstand high turgour pressure?
Growing hyphae
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Cell wall importance
1. Determines shape 2. Provides protection 3. Site of nutrient exchange
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What does the fungal lipid bilayer contain?
Ergosterol
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What does septa compartmentalisation provide fungi?
- mechanical strength - isolation of damaged/aging hyphae - differentiation (sporulation)
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Describe Zygomycetes
- Aseptate - Woronin body allows cytoplasmic streaming and nuclear/organelle movement
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Hyphae without septa are
- Coenocytic - have multiple nuclei
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What allows hyphal branching?
lots of cytoplasmic streaming
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Describe Dikarya
Growth direction is enabled and defined by Spitzenkörper
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Mycelium
Complex 3D networks of hyphae
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Describe the growth of a he inner region of mycelium
- denser, fused hyphae - branching/infilling - positive autotropy and anastomosis - good connectivity for transport
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Describe regulation of mycelium growth in the outer region
- sparser, unbranched hyphae (exploratory) - negative autotropy (good space-filling)
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Branching frequency and fungal foraging
- sensitive to environmental conditions - more exploratory hyphae occur under nutrient stress - more dense colonies occur under nutrient excess
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Autotropism
Sensing of neighbouring hyphae via O2 or CO2 concentrations followed by growth towards (+ve) it away (-ve) from neighbours
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Describe fungal growth on agar
Gives rise to radial colonies on rich media
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Give a yeast that undergoes budding
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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Give a yeast that undergoes fission
Saccharomyces pombe
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Give an example of a dimorphic fungus
- Candida albicans - filamentous or unicellular depending in environment
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Give examples of asexual fungal clades
- Chytridiomycota - Penicillum
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How do fungal spores form
1. Fusion of unicellular gametes/specialised hyphae 2. Fusion of 2 haploid cells to form a diploid cell, which undergoes meiosis and mitosis
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Ascospores
Occur in a sac
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Describe fungal sexual spores
resistant to drying, heat, freezing, and some chemicals
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Homokaryon
Coenocytic hyphae (many identical nuclei in the same piece of cytoplasm)
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What does coenocytism provide
Local complémentation
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Anastomosis
- Fusion between branches of same or different hyphae - promiscuous (little control)
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What does the phenotype of a fungus depend on?
Interactions between genetically varying nuclei in the cytoplasm
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Describe spatially dependent phenotypes wrt fungi
Mycelium phenotype is different in different parts
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What is the advantages of heterokaryon?
- Greater physiological flexibility to react to different nutritional environments - increase genetic diversity without need for sexual reproduction - can grow on minimal medium
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Heterokaryon
- two auxotrophs (lys) and (ade-) jointly can synthesise joth amino acids - nuclei remain unfused - local phenotype
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Fusions might occur
- tip-to-tip - tip-to-side - side-to-side (tip induction and outgrowth of peg-like branches)
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Describe vegetative compatibility genes
- v-c genes - determine if fusion is maintained or shorter
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What causes vegetative incompatibility
Genetic differences at het loci
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Het
Heterokaryon
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What does vegetative incompatibility result in?
Death of fused cells (apoptosis)
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Stable heterokaryons do not guarantee
Sexual reproduction
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Barrage
Line of dead cells following fusion
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Plasmogamy
Fusing of cytoplasm of two cells
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Karyogamy
Fusing of nucleus of two cells
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Homothallic
Self-fertile
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Heterothallic
Require compatible mating types
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Describe the pathway of fungal sexual reproduction
1. Anastomosis 2. Plasmogamy 3. Karyogamy 4. Meiosis
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Anamorph
- Asexual reproductive stage - mould like
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Teleomorph
- sexual reproductive stage - fruiting body
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Holomorph
- whole fungus - anamorph and teleomorph
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Arbuscular mycorrhizae
- non-woody plants - grow within root cells to form arbuscles - obligate biotroph - e.g. Glomeromycota
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Arbuscles
Site of nutrient exchange
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Ectomycorhiza
- woody trees/shrubs - Hartig net - wood wide web
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Hartig net
- sheath formed around plant root structure - hyphae penetrate outer root cell layer - allows nutrient exchange
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Benefits of mycorrhizae to the plant
- increased nutrient uptake (increased SA, nutrient mobilisation and scavenging efficiency) - tolerance to water stress and pathogens - phosphate solubilisation - ammonium absorption
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Benefits of mycorrhizzae to the fungus
- 10-20% photosynthates go to the fungus - reciprocal relationship (the more photosynthate to the fungus, the more nutrients to the plant)
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Describe lichens
Ascomycota with phototrophic partner
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What are the potential phototrophic partners in lichens?
photosynthetic alga, Cyanobacteria or basidiomycete
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What do the symbionts provide in lichen?
- phototrophic partner provides organic carbon - fungus provided weather protection and promotes rock inorganic nutrient use
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Heterokonts
More than one flagella, often at front of cell
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What makes fungal classification elusive?
Morphotypes
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What is the oldest part of a mycelial colony?
The spores in the middle
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The outside of a mycelial colony will grow
Continuously
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Homokaryon and heterokaryon
- occupy different areas - have the same phenotype

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