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Mushrooms as Rainmakers: How Spores Act as Nuclei for Raindrops

  • Maribeth O. Hassett ,

    Contributed equally to this work with: Maribeth O. Hassett, Mark W. F. Fischer, Nicholas P. Money

    Affiliation Department of Biology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056, United States of America

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  • Mark W. F. Fischer ,

    Contributed equally to this work with: Maribeth O. Hassett, Mark W. F. Fischer, Nicholas P. Money

    Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Physical Science, Mount St. Joseph University, Cincinnati, Ohio 45233, United States of America

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  • Nicholas P. Money

    Contributed equally to this work with: Maribeth O. Hassett, Mark W. F. Fischer, Nicholas P. Money

    * E-mail: moneynp@miamioh.edu

    Affiliations Department of Biology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056, United States of America, Western Program, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056, United States of America

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Mushrooms as Rainmakers: How Spores Act as Nuclei for Raindrops

  • Maribeth O. Hassett, 
  • Mark W. F. Fischer, 
  • Nicholas P. Money
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  • Published: October 28, 2015
  • https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140407
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