PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Sang Hoon Lee
AU  - Mark D. Fricker
AU  - Mason A. Porter
TI  - Mesoscale Analyses of Fungal Networks
AID  - 10.1101/006544
DP  - 2014 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 006544
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2014/06/24/006544.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2014/06/24/006544.full
AB  - We give a brief application of mesoscopic response functions (MRFs) to a large set of networks of fungi and slime moulds. We construct “structural networks” by estimating cord conductances (which yield edge weights) from experimental data and “functional networks” by calculating edge weights based on how much nutrient traffic is predicted to occur on each edge. Both types of networks have the same topology, and we compute MRFs for both families of networks to illustrate two different ways of constructing taxonomies to compare large sets of fungal and slime-mould networks to each other. We demonstrate that network taxonomies allow objective groupings of networks across species, treatments, and laboratories. We believe that the groupings that we have derived through our structural and functional taxonomic analyses of fungal networks could be of considerable assistance to biologists in their attempts to capture the impact of treatment combinations on network behaviour.PACS numbers 47.63.Jd, 87.19.rh, 89.40.-a, 89.75.Fb