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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INTERFACE
卷 10, 期 85, 页码 -出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2013.0187
关键词
spore dispersal; fungi; morphological diversity; fluid dynamics; elastohydrodynamics; optimization
资金
- National Science Foundation through the Harvard Materials Research Science and Engineering Center [DMR-0820484]
- Division of Mathematical Sciences [DMS-0907985]
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences [GM-068763]
- Marie Curie IO Fellowship within the 7th European Community Framework Programme
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The forcibly ejected spores of ascomycete fungi must penetrate several millimetres of nearly still air surrounding sporocarps to reach dispersive airflows, and escape is facilitated when a spore is launched with large velocity. To launch, the spores of thousands of species are ejected through an apical ring, a small elastic pore. The startling diversity of apical ring and spore shapes and dimensions make them favoured characters for both species descriptions and the subsequent inference of relationships among species. However, the physical constraints shaping this diversity and the adaptive benefits of specific morphologies are not understood. Here, we develop an elastohydrodynamic theory of the spore's ejection through the apical ring and demonstrate that to avoid enormous energy losses during spore ejection, the four principal morphological dimensions of spore and apical ring must cluster within a nonlinear one-dimensional subspace. We test this prediction using morphological data for 45 fungal species from two different classes and 18 families. Our sampling encompasses multiple loss and gain events and potentially independent origins of this spore ejection mechanism. Although the individual dimensions of the spore and apical ring are only weakly correlated with each other, they collapse into the predicted subspace with high accuracy. The launch velocity appears to be within 2 per cent of the optimum for over 90 per cent of all forcibly ejected species. Although the morphological diversity of apical rings and spores appears startlingly diverse, a simple principle can be used to organize it.
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