Whether it's slimy black spots on your shower curtain, fuzzy white patches on your basement ... They are types of fungi. Outdoors, molds play an important role in nature, breaking down dead ...

This fungus has infected crops, and in turn, food supplies for more than a millennia. The black ... red-and-white toadstool, the Amanita muscaria, is widely known as the "fly agaric," but is called ...

Fungi can be enigmatic organisms. Mushrooms or other structures may be visible above the soil, but beneath lurks a complex ...

Conditions are quite different today as I step into the early November woods for a walk. With the leaf drop and the not-yet snow cover, the forest is very open, and I see plenty of things that were ...

In the real world, ants usually come into contact with this fungus when spores – pollen-size reproductive particles that the fungus makes – fall onto the ant from a tree or plant overhead.

A zombie cicada fungus, _Massospora cicadina_, has consumed the rear end of this periodical cicada, replacing it with a 'plug' of chalky spores. Matt Kasson, CC BY-ND Is a zombie apocalypse caused ...

Bradford pears have notoriously weak crotches (branch angles). Think of your index and middle fingers forming a “V” for ...

Saving the bats: Researchers find bacteria, fungi on bat wings that could help fight deadly white-nose syndrome. ScienceDaily . Retrieved November 14, 2024 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases ...

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We can now study these symbiotic mergers in filamentous fungi, and, by tracking adaptive evolution in the laboratory, can identify the functions needed to stabilize the partnership and enable long ...