Individuality and Geometry: The Selective Advantage of Knowing Oneself

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CSU

Student's Major

Biological Sciences

Student's College

Science, Engineering and Technology

Mentor's Name

Keith Klein

Mentor's Department

Biological Sciences

Mentor's College

Science, Engineering and Technology

Description

Any model for Vegetative Incompatibility (VI) in Ascomycetes should explain why VI is selected and why such selection gives rise to immense variation. The determinate size of the reproductive structures, mycelial volume and surface constraints on reproductive success, the ability to transfer excess reproductive capacity, and the frequent encounters of clones of self and others have been employed in the proposed model to explain the selection for VI. By demonstrating the selective advantage for self-recognition, the model not only provides geometric and physiological parameters within which such selection operates, but it also explains the immense diversity observed in the VI phenotypes.

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Individuality and Geometry: The Selective Advantage of Knowing Oneself

CSU

Any model for Vegetative Incompatibility (VI) in Ascomycetes should explain why VI is selected and why such selection gives rise to immense variation. The determinate size of the reproductive structures, mycelial volume and surface constraints on reproductive success, the ability to transfer excess reproductive capacity, and the frequent encounters of clones of self and others have been employed in the proposed model to explain the selection for VI. By demonstrating the selective advantage for self-recognition, the model not only provides geometric and physiological parameters within which such selection operates, but it also explains the immense diversity observed in the VI phenotypes.