TY - JOUR
T1 - Symbiotic status alters fungal eco-evolutionary offspring trajectories
AU - Aguilar-Trigueros, Carlos A.
AU - Krah, Franz- Sebastian
AU - Cornwell, William K.
AU - Zanne, Amy E.
AU - Abrego, Nerea
AU - Anderson, Ian C.
AU - Andrew, Carrie J.
AU - Baldrian, Petr
AU - Bässler, Claus
AU - Bissett, Andrew
AU - Chaudhary, V. Bala
AU - Chen, Baodong
AU - Chen, Yongliang
AU - Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel
AU - Deveautour, Coline
AU - Egidi, Eleonora
AU - Flores-Moreno, Habacuc
AU - Golan, Jacob
AU - Heilmann-Clausen, Jacob
AU - Hempel, Stefan
AU - Hu, Yajun
AU - Kauserud, Havard
AU - Kivlin, Stephanie N.
AU - Kohout, Petr
AU - Lammel, Daniel R.
AU - Maestre, Fernando T.
AU - Pringle, Anne
AU - Purhonen, Jenna
AU - Singh, Brajesh K.
AU - Veresoglou, Stavros D.
AU - Vetrovsky, Tomas
AU - Zhang, Haiyang
AU - Rillig, Matthias C.
AU - Powell, Jeff R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Authors. Ecology Letters published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2023/9
Y1 - 2023/9
N2 - Despite host-fungal symbiotic interactions being ubiquitous in all ecosystems, understanding how symbiosis has shaped the ecology and evolution of fungal spores that are involved in dispersal and colonization of their hosts has been ignored in life-history studies. We assembled a spore morphology database covering over 26,000 species of free-living to symbiotic fungi of plants, insects and humans and found more than eight orders of variation in spore size. Evolutionary transitions in symbiotic status correlated with shifts in spore size, but the strength of this effect varied widely among phyla. Symbiotic status explained more variation than climatic variables in the current distribution of spore sizes of plant-associated fungi at a global scale while the dispersal potential of their spores is more restricted compared to free-living fungi. Our work advances life-history theory by highlighting how the interaction between symbiosis and offspring morphology shapes the reproductive and dispersal strategies among living forms.
AB - Despite host-fungal symbiotic interactions being ubiquitous in all ecosystems, understanding how symbiosis has shaped the ecology and evolution of fungal spores that are involved in dispersal and colonization of their hosts has been ignored in life-history studies. We assembled a spore morphology database covering over 26,000 species of free-living to symbiotic fungi of plants, insects and humans and found more than eight orders of variation in spore size. Evolutionary transitions in symbiotic status correlated with shifts in spore size, but the strength of this effect varied widely among phyla. Symbiotic status explained more variation than climatic variables in the current distribution of spore sizes of plant-associated fungi at a global scale while the dispersal potential of their spores is more restricted compared to free-living fungi. Our work advances life-history theory by highlighting how the interaction between symbiosis and offspring morphology shapes the reproductive and dispersal strategies among living forms.
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:78164
U2 - 10.1111/ele.14271
DO - 10.1111/ele.14271
M3 - Article
SN - 1461-023X
VL - 26
SP - 1523
EP - 1534
JO - Ecology Letters
JF - Ecology Letters
IS - 9
ER -