The freezer in the laboratory of Professor of Mycorrhizal Studies Leho Tedersoo contains DNA samples of tens of thousands of microscopic soil fungi collected worldwide. This invaluable treasury is the ...
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Scientists found a lifeform they can’t classify, and it’s baffling
Biologists are confronting a problem they thought they had mostly solved: what, exactly, counts as life. A wave of ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Mycologists tend to base their evolutionary assumptions about all fungi on the higher fungi such as mushrooms, bread molds and yeasts. But that is a mistake, according to a ...
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The sticky battle between microscopic worms and predatory fungi comes with a genetic trade-off
Researchers from Academia Sinica, Taiwan and the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Germany, have revealed how the nematode gene nhr-66 controls the production of cuticular collagens that ...
Microscopic environments thrive, hidden from human view. The strange creatures that populate these tiny realms are the focus of the 10 fold-out spreads in this book, each illustrating a specific ...
In a paper published in National Science Review, a Chinese team of scientists highlights the discovery of well-preserved blue-stain fungal hyphae within a Jurassic fossil wood from northeastern China, ...
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