Split Gill

haha, thanks, but i will not stop !!! =)

thanks karenL, (couldn't you look before 10 min. i'm working through the ïnbox-comments, had it just cleared for this one --- NOO, BAD JOKE =) , please go on look at all my spottings !! thats a weird fungi, or isn't it ?? 28.000 -36.000 sexes, oh man, who researched something like that ?!!!!

thanks all of you!

( http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scientists-discover-why-fungi-have-36000-sexes-1119181.html ) ( http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/feb2000.html ) -> IF HUMANS were mushrooms, finding a date would be much easier. Whereas we muddle by with just two sexes, the fungi have 36,000, all of which can mate with each other, in a mysterious process involving underground fronds. the "schizoplhyllum commune" can have sex with almost every companion it meets - decided by its own "sex gene" - any harmful mitochondrial mutations are restricted to the parent carrying them, and cannot easily spread through the population. This "Berlin Wall" strategy is used by many lower species that have multiple sexes, including ciliate bacteria ( !?-why-fungi-have-36000-sexes ) ->Thus any of the offspring would be compatible with only 1/4 of its siblings, a significant improvement over the single locus system. In reality there are usually more than two alleles at any one locus. Each individual is compatible with any individual that is different at both loci. In Schizophyllum commune there are more than 300 alleles at the A locus and more than 90 known for the B locus. Thus there are more than 28,000 different combinations of A and B, or 28,000 different sexes! Each individual is compatible with 27,997 of the others in the worldwide population (99.98% outbreeding) compared with being compatible with only 1/4 of its siblings. Thus the enormous number of sexes in fungi is meant to encourage non-sibling mating and non-relative mating, which ensures genetic diversity in the population. This seems to have worked quite well in the widely distributed Schizophyllum. ( !?-botit.botany). ----> I wouldn't explain it better or even right, i think,i understood that. hope it will be helpful with your questions.