CHAT GPT -Holy cow!!

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92. But...fungi don't always cooperate?

I was taught that fungi sometimes cooperate, sometimes compete - much like humanity, it depends on the strains & environment?

Examples grabbed at random because I can't find the study I really wanted (but these look interesting, too):

"Antibiotics create a shift from mutualism to competition in human gut communities with a longer-lasting impact on fungi than bacteria"
https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40168-020-00899-6
(direct link to paper: https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/counter/pdf/10.1186/s40168-020-00899-6.pdf )

"Competition–colonization tradeoffs structure fungal diversity"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41396-018-0086-0
(direct link to paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41396-018-0086-0.pdf )

"Highly competitive fungi manipulate bacterial communities in decomposing beech wood (Fagus sylvatica) "
https://academic.oup.com/femsec/article/95/2/fiy225/5218414
(direct link to paper at the URL)

Regarding, "Survival of the fittest", as I learned it just means that sets of genes whose organism-vehicles better fit their environment are more likely to be found in the population as generations pass. There's no moral value to it, it just is. Which brings into question the whole labeling of something without intent as, "competitive" but that's another discussion?