Many soil microbes play a vital role in ecosystems, as they help plants access nutrients and water and assist in stress ...

Fungi can reproduce asexually through fragmentation or budding off of the parent body, but they are also capable of sexual reproduction. Fungus sex is complicated.

Researchers collected 35 species of marine fungi in the waters off of Woods Hole, Massachusetts, including some that had never been studied before, and found unusual cell division cycles in some ...

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 ...

Fungi can reproduce asexually through fragmentation or budding off of the parent body, but they are also capable of sexual reproduction. Fungus sex is complicated.

Instead, these fungi were thought to reproduce exclusively by producing identical copies of themselves through a process called budding. Fourteen years ago, a lab in which Bennett worked was the first ...

A toxic fungus killed ten scientists working on a tomb in Poland, and it’s believed the same spore killed those who excavated ...

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As natural enemies, parasites can dramatically harm host populations, and even catalyze their decline. Thus, identifying factors that promote disease spread is paramount. Environmental factors can ...

But if we get a mild, wet winter, the fungal season can just roll on. That’s the thing about fungi, you can never be sure. They play by their own rules.