The use and abuse of pollinators by fungi.

Some fungi use flower-visiting insects to facilitate sexual reproduction or to disperse spores. These fungi have evolved elaborate techniques, such as floral mimicry and the invasion of extant flower parts, for attracting 'pollinators'. Recent research shows that fungal exploitation of pollinators has the potential to affect floral evolution, pollination ecology, plant life history traits, as well as disease-transmission dynamics and fungal evolution.