{"id":167650,"date":"2023-07-16T10:32:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T15:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/long-lived-fungi-have-evolved-a-way-to-cheat-death-for-centuries"},"modified":"2023-07-16T10:32:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T15:32:27","slug":"long-lived-fungi-have-evolved-a-way-to-cheat-death-for-centuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/long-lived-fungi-have-evolved-a-way-to-cheat-death-for-centuries","title":{"rendered":"Long-Lived Fungi Have Evolved a Way to Cheat Death For Centuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/long-lived-fungi-have-evolved-a-way-to-cheat-death-for-centuries2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Long-lived fungi are the latest organisms to go under the microscope in search of new understandings as to why they don\u2019t accrue life-limiting mutations, given their age.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Wageningen University in the Netherlands <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.asm.org\/doi\/10.1128\/mmbr.00022-21\">set out to compare<\/a> \u201cthe peculiarities\u201d of multicellular growth in filamentous fungi. What they ended up with was a new hypothesis explaining how certain types of fungi keep a lid on freeloading mutations that accumulate in their thread-like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mycelium\">mycelia<\/a>; the root-like structures of fungal colonies.<\/p>\n<p>The filaments of mushroom-forming fungi spend much of their long lives with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/scitable\/blog\/creature-cast\/a_tale_of_two_nuclei\/\">two, separate nuclei<\/a>, each containing one-half of a full set of chromosomes. Only in the gills of mushrooms moments before forming spores do the two haploid nuclei mesh together in a brief union to reproduce asexually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-lived fungi are the latest organisms to go under the microscope in search of new understandings as to why they don\u2019t accrue life-limiting mutations, given their age. Researchers at Wageningen University in the Netherlands set out to compare \u201cthe peculiarities\u201d of multicellular growth in filamentous fungi. What they ended up with was a new hypothesis [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167650","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}