Posted on 04/21/2022 6:41:09 AM PDT by FarCenter
Some common mushrooms likely have more than 17,000 sexes, researchers report March 31 in PLOS Genetics. The work could help us better understand the evolution of sexual reproduction as well as showcases the increasing power of genome sequencing.
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.
“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.”
Petri dish with white fungal growths on each half Two compatible strains of Trichaptum fuscoviolaceum mating on a petri dish VILDE BRUHN KINNEBERG Trichaptum is a group of woody, plate-like mushrooms (shelf fungi) that commonly grow on trees and fallen logs in cooler parts of the Northern Hemisphere. “I think they’re quite pretty, but not very showy,” says Inger Skrede, a fungal biologist at the University of Oslo and a coauthor of the paper. The fungi weren’t chosen for their looks, of course. 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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We need more alphabet
Ha! Leftists are fungus! I should have guessed it.
Fungus. I’ll buy that.
A fungus is not moronic enough to believe genderism is anything but madness.
Enough about democrats.
Tell us about mushrooms.
(likely have more than 17,000 sexes)
Don’t give them any ideas!
“This kind of study would have been cost and time prohibitive even five years ago.”
But luckily for us, they can blow Taxpayer Dollars on it now!
Yippee!
Gender Theorists will use this as evidence people can be born in the wrong body. Take it to the bank.
SanFran Fungus?...............
This thread ought to be good.
…but the real question is…do fungi try to come up with MORE sexes to suit their egos?
No doubt this will be used as a validation of having 57 sexes for humans.
Is this the ‘Gay Penguins’ justification article for even more gender dysphoria acceptance ?!?
Yes yes. And so goes the old saw “ there’s a fungus, among us”
This is about genetics, not sexes or gender.
The “sexes” was put in the title by the editor for an agenda.
Is there anything you aren’t telling us?
having to be different at two different gene regions makes it less likely for spores released from the same mushroom to successfully combine, thus lowering the odds of inbreeding.
PREVENT INBREEDING
Huh. Mushroom porn. This article should come with a mature warning label.
How do they know the sex of the fungus if it doesn’t identify its preferred pronouns?
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