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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Microbiology Volume 2012, Article ID 351832, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2012/351832 Review Article Communication in Fungi 1, 2 ¨ 1, 3 Fabien Cottier and Fritz A. Muhlschlegel 1 School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NJ, UK 2 Singapore Immunology Network, Agency for Science, Technology, and Research, Singapore 138648 3 Clinical Microbiology Service, William Harvey Hospital, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, Ashford, Kent TN24 0LZ, UK ¨ Correspondence should be addressed to Fritz A. Muhlschlegel, f.a.muhlschlegel@kent.ac.uk Received 17 June 2011; Accepted 12 July 2011 Academic Editor: Julian R. Naglik ¨ Copyright © 2012 F. Cottier and F. A. Muhlschlegel. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We will discuss fungal communication in the context of fundamental biological functions including mating, growth, morpho- genesis, and the regulation of fungal virulence determinants. We will address intraspecies but also interkingdom signaling by systematically discussing the sender of the message, the molecular message, and receiver. Analyzing communication shows the close coevolution of fungi with organisms present in their environment giving insights into multispecies communication. A better understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying microbial communication will promote our understanding of the