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mycophagous

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mycophagous [mī′käf·ə·gəs]
(zoology)
Feeding on fungi.


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Trappe, both participants in the Andrews research, showed the relation between subterranean fungi that form mycorrhizae-symbiotic associations with tree roots -and mycophagous (fungal-eating) rodents such as California red-backed moles, which disperse the fungi spores through the process of defecation.
 
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