Fungal Community Ecology: A Hybrid Beast with a Molecular Master
Fungal Community Ecology: A Hybrid Beast with a Molecular Master
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DOI：
10.1641/b580907
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发表时间：
2008-10-01
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影响因子：
10.1
通讯作者：
Bruns, Thomas D.
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作者：
Peay, Kabir G.;Kennedy, Peter G.;Bruns, Thomas D.
真菌在陆地生态系统的功能和动力学中发挥着重要作用，通过跨越互惠-寄生连续体的相互作用直接影响植物，动物和细菌群落的结构。然而，只有随着基于脱氧核糖核酸（DNA）的分子技术的出现，研究人员才能够密切关注构建真菌群落的生态力量。近年来，分子生物学研究的迅猛发展极大地促进了我们对真菌多样性、生态位划分、竞争、空间变异和功能性状的理解。由于真菌独特的生物学特性，真菌生态学是一种横跨宏观和微观世界的混合动物。虽然这一领域的双重性质提出了许多挑战，但它也使真菌成为检验现存生态理论的极好生物，并为新的和未预料到的研究提供了机会。许多问题仍然没有答案，但分子技术和折叠反实验室实验的持续进展表明，真菌生态学有一个光明的未来。
Fungi play a major role in the function and dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems, directly influencing the structure of plant, animal, and bacterial communities through interactions that span the mutualism-parasitism continuum. Only with the advent of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)-based molecular techniques, however, have researchers been able to look closely at the ecological forces that structure fungal communities. The recent explosion of molecular studies has greatly advanced our understanding of fungal diversity; niche partitioning, competition, spatial variability and functional traits. Because of fungi's unique biology; fungal ecology is a hybrid beast that straddles the macroscopic and microscopic worlds. while the dual nature of this field presents runny challenges, it also makes fungi excellent organisms for testing extant ecological theories and it provides opportunities for new and unanticipated research. Many questions remain unanswered, but continuing advances in molecular techniques and fold anti lab experimentation indicate drat fungal ecology has a bright future.