{"id":163550,"date":"2023-05-08T16:23:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T21:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/why-this-fungus-has-over-20000-sexes"},"modified":"2023-05-08T16:23:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T21:23:46","slug":"why-this-fungus-has-over-20000-sexes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/why-this-fungus-has-over-20000-sexes","title":{"rendered":"Why This Fungus Has Over 20,000 Sexes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-this-fungus-has-over-20000-sexes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gender isn\u2019t really a fungal construct.<\/p>\n<p>Where we have two traditionally recognized genders, male and female, some species of fungi can have thousands of sexes. It sounds confusing, but it\u2019s actually helpful \u2014 with so many variations, the fungi can mate with nearly every individual of their species they meet. It must make for a wild singles night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gender isn\u2019t really a fungal construct. Where we have two traditionally recognized genders, male and female, some species of fungi can have thousands of sexes. It sounds confusing, but it\u2019s actually helpful \u2014 with so many variations, the fungi can mate with nearly every individual of their species they meet. It must make for a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}