AUSTIN, Texas--Fungus-farming ants around the world cultivate essentially the same fungus and are not as critical to the reproduction of the fungi as previously believed, biologists at The University ...

Saprotrophic fungi are obliged to spend energy on growth, reproduction, and substrate digestion. To understand the trade-offs involved, we developed a model that, for any given growth rate, identifies ...

Sexual reproduction is a common attribute of eukaryotes owing to its potential to generate variability among individuals and to provide an advantage over species that are strictly asexual. Human ...

Figure 1: Sorting of variants of a polymorphic marker in single-spore cultures of Glomus. To distinguish between these two models, we devised three approaches. First, we investigated maintenance of ...