Fungi can sense environmental signals and react accordingly,changing their development, direction of growth, and metabolism. Sensory perception lies at the heart of adaptation to changing conditions,and helps fungi to improve growth and recycle biological waste, and to know when and how to contaminate a plant or animal host. New results based on characterizing and then conducting a comparative analysis of two genome sequences published online May 26, and 2016 in the journal Current Biology shed new light on the evolution of sensory perception in fungi.
Source: phys.org