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Why is it advantageous for some species of basidiomycetes (club fungi) to produce a showy and fleshy fruiting bodies?

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It aids spore dispersal. Examples are when puffballs huffs spores into the wind, stinkhorns and truffles smell and attract flies that carry off spores. Disperse haploid spores grow into mycelia. This haploid mycelia will meet a compatible mating type they fuse. This cycle continues and repeats.

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