Of all the potential levels of interaction between fungi and other organisms, parasitism is perhaps the most difficult to demonstrate and distinguish from saprotrophism in the fossil record.
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Saprotrophism
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Savile (43) suggests that obligate parasitism is a fundamental attribute of primitive groups and that more than once saprotrophism may have derived from it.
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Saprotrophism facilitates the persistence of the fungal population in a stand and limits the effects of genetic drift and founder effects by massively sustaining the production of propagules that will try to infect the healthy trees available (see Model section).
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