Fungal shunt (IMAGE)

Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences

Fungal shunt

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Fungus creates an underappreciated express lane for carbon, "shunting" as much as 20 percent of the carbon fixed by diatoms out of the microbial loop and into the fungal parasite.

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Klawonn et al. 2021, PNAS

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