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Re:Language of fungi derived from their electrical spiking a... by trenchgun on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @05:40PM (#30937761)
Link please?
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Re:Language of fungi derived from their electrical spiking a... by xg15 on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @05:51PM (#30937901)
This is the article I got the info from: http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/how-the-z...

This seems to be the referenced paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1711673114

I was wrong about it being from a few months ago though. It was released in 2017 already.

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Re:Language of fungi derived from their electrical spiking a... by mrtnmcc on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @07:36PM (#30938800)
It's unclear from that source that the complex fungal network in the ant is in any way important for controlling ant behavior. It's only speculated.
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