A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body of zombie fungus bursting forth from its head.The insect, along with a ...
Recent molecular surveys revealed an unexpected diversity of mycoplankton in lakes and oceans. The early diverging fungal lineages are known to be prominent parasites of phytoplankton. However, due to ...
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Ancient 'zombie' fungi found in amber reveal earliest parasitic relationships with insects
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered two new species of parasitic fungi preserved in amber dating back approximately 99 million years. The fossilized entomopathogenic fungi ...
Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...
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Parasitic fungus may have emerged 18 million years before the ants with which it lives today
A genus of fungi previously considered a parasite of fungi associated with ants may actually have much more complex ecological functions. According to a study published in the journal Communications ...
Fungi are neither plants nor animals. The kingdom fungi is one of the six kingdoms of life, along with plants, animals, protists, bacteria and archaea. Molds and yeasts are part of the kingdom fungi, ...
Paula Andrea Gomez-Zapata, a PhD student in Dr. Aime's lab at Purdue University, shown here at the Arthur Fungarium at Purdue University. Colombian biologist Paula Andrea Gomez-Zapata is searching for ...
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