Trade-off between Plasticity and Velocity in Mycelial Growth

mBio (Apr 2021)

Affiliations

Sayumi Fukuda: Microbiology Research Center for Sustainability (MiCS), Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Riho Yamamoto: Microbiology Research Center for Sustainability (MiCS), Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Naoki Yanagisawa: Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Naoki Takaya: Microbiology Research Center for Sustainability (MiCS), Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Yoshikatsu Sato: Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Meritxell Riquelme: Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, CICESE, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
Norio Takeshita: ORCiD; Microbiology Research Center for Sustainability (MiCS), Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Abstract

Tip-growing fungal cells maintain cell polarity at the apical regions and elongate by de novo