Subject: Paleomycology?!....

From: [email-masked] (Eric Grunden)
Date: 24 Oct 1996 03:40:37 GMT

Is there a field of study that deals with the evolution
of fungi? It seems that paleobotany only concerns itself
with plants. Any good schools?  What are the major changes
in fungi versus extinct forms? What are some unusual
characteristics found in primitive fungi that didn't
survive?  From what did fungi evolve? When? Which came
first, plant roots or mycorrhizal fungi? Did the symbiosis
start out as parasitism that some plants "learned" to
survive? Were there fungi that specifically only decomposed
dinosaur flesh? <--Perhaps the sexual states of some of the
so-called imperfects (that's why we don't see the perfect
states today)?  Curious............

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