Ecology: Fungal mimics dupe animals by transforming plants

Comparative Pathobiology of Fungal Pathogens of Plants and Animals

1 Borlaug Advanced Research Center, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, 2 Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, 3 Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, 4 Department of Microbial and Molecular Pathogenesis, Te...

Fungal Infection of Plants.

Fungi constitute a highly versatile group of eukaryotic carbonheterotrophic organisms that have successfully occupied most natural habitats. The vast majority of fungi are strict saprophytes; <10% of the *lOO,OOO known fungal sp-ecies are able to colonize plants, and an even smaller fraction of these are to a plant pathogen? Second, what mechanisms control the degree of virulence on the host on...

Information and its use by animals in evolutionary ecology.

Information is a crucial currency for animals from both a behavioural and evolutionary perspective. Adaptive behaviour relies upon accurate estimation of relevant ecological parameters; the better informed an individual, the better it can develop and adjust its behaviour to meet the demands of a variable world. Here, we focus on the burgeoning interest in the impact of ecological uncertainty on...

Evolutionary ecology of carnivorous plants

Nicholas J. Gotelli Dept of Biology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA. Carnivorous plants have fascinated evolutionary ecologists, botanists and horticulturists for centuries. Early investigators were reluctant to accept that plants could consume insects and other small invertebrates1; Darwin2 provided the first detailed experimental evidence for carnivory in several genera. Sin...

Distribution of Animals and Plants