Nature Communications (Aug 2019)
Bis-naphthopyrone pigments protect filamentous ascomycetes from a wide range of predators
Abstract
It is thought that fungi protect themselves from predators by the production of toxic compounds. Here, Xu et al. show that a wide range of animal predators avoid feeding on Fusarium fungi, and this depends on fungal production of a bis-naphthopyrone pigment that is not toxic to the predators.