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 ...

Sexual reproduction without mating Date: July 6, 2021 Source: Ruhr-University Bochum Summary: A type of fungi studied by a team of biologists for their sexual reproduction strategies are commonly ...

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 ...