Abstract
Fungal Organisms are the only eukaryotes which assemble unicellular and multicellular organisms which seems to be an indicator of their ancestral role in the evolution of multicellular eukaryotes such as animals and plants. Coordination and organisation processes occur in all organismic kingdoms, and in fungi these are seen during the formation of fruiting bodies (intraorganismic), between species of the same kind (interorganismic) and between non-fungal organisms (transorganismic). These involve rule-governed sign-mediated interactions, the signalling processes being nothing other than distinct biocommunicative processes. The semio-chemicals used are of biotic origin, in contrast to chemical indicators that trigger the fungal organism to react in a specific manner.
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Witzany, G. (2010). Biocommunication of Fungal Organisms. In: Biocommunication and Natural Genome Editing. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3319-2_5
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