ReviewMicrobiology spectrum2017
The Mycelium as a Network.
Review in Microbiology spectrum, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.
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44 citing papers in PubMed.
- Structural Anisotropy-Induced Tensile Stiffening of Fungal Mycelial Networks.ACS applied polymer materials · 2026Article
- A phase oscillator model of cell cycles reveals nuclear density control in a branched fungal network.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Feeding of Agaricus bisporus Mushrooms is Impacted by Mycelium Colonization Time and Network Architecture.Environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- Core clock protein subcellular dynamics coordinate local and global circadian control in syncytia.The Journal of cell biology · 2026Article
- Propagation of electrical spike trains in substrates colonised by oyster fungi.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Differences in mycelial turnover and persistence of wood-decay fungi at the microscale.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- Electrical information flows across the sporocarps of two ectomycorrhizal fungi in the field.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Next-Generation Biopesticides for the Control of Fungal Plant Pathogens.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Basidiomycete-specific chitin synthase genes have clade-specific roles in cell wall formation and hyphal development inMicrobiology (Reading, England) · 2026Article
- Basidiomycete-specific chitin synthase genes have clade-specific roles in cell wall formation and hyphal development inMicrobiology (Reading, England) · 2026Article
- Not Extremely Plastic: Testing the Limits of Morphological Plasticity in Fungal Mycelia in Response to Soil Grazers.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- Core Clock Protein Subcellular Dynamics Coordinate Local and Global Circadian Control in Syncytia.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- The Fungus Among Us: Innovations and Applications of Mycelium-Based Composites.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Soil Fungal Diversity, Community Structure, and Network Stability in the Southwestern Tibetan Plateau.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Hierarchical Structure of the Program Used by Filamentous Fungi to Navigate in Confining Microenvironments.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Full identification of a growing and branching network's spatio-temporal structures.Biophysical journal · 2025Article
- Digital Analysis of Mycelium Growth and Mycelium DensityMycobiology · 2025Article
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- Harnessing Fungi Signaling in Living Composites.Global challenges (Hoboken, NJ) · 2024Article
- Fungi rather than bacteria drive early mass loss from fungal necromass regardless of particle size.Environmental microbiology reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
The characteristic growth pattern of fungal mycelia as an interconnected network has a major impact on how cellular events operating on a micron scale affect colony behavior at an ecological scale. Network structure is intimately linked to flows of resources across the network that in turn modify the network architecture itself. This complex interplay shapes the incredibly plastic behavior of fungi and allows them to cope with patchy, ephemeral resources, competition, damage, and predation in a manner completely different from multicellular plants or animals. Here, we try to link network structure with impact on resource movement at different scales of organization to understand the benefits and challenges of organisms that grow as connected networks. This inevitably involves an interdisciplinary approach whereby mathematical modeling helps to provide a bridge between information gleaned by traditional cell and molecular techniques or biophysical approaches at a hyphal level, with observations of colony dynamics and behavior at an ecological level.
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