The totality of bacteria, viruses and fungi that exist in and on a multicellular organism forms its natural microbiome. The ...

The world would look very different without multicellular organisms -- take away the plants, animals, fungi, and seaweed, and Earth starts to look like a wetter, greener version of Mars.

Researchers have identified that species in the gut microbiome can produce sphingolipids that protect the host from pathogens ...

Horizontal Gene Transfer Happens More Often Than Anyone Thought. DNA passed to and from all kinds of organisms, even across kingdoms, has helped shape the tree of life, to a large and undisputed ...

Scientists at the University of Bristol have discovered that the vast anatomical variety of fungi stems from evolutionary increases in multicellular complexity. Most people recognise that fungi ...

Standing at mere millimetres, these organisms were once classed as multicellular fungi, but are now considered a unique type of single-celled protozoa in their own right.

Imagine life without animals, trees, and fungi. The world would look very different. But while the first life was surely single-celled, we don’t know just how it evolved to multicellular organisms.

Imagine life without animals, trees, and fungi. The world would look very different. But while the first life was surely single-celled, we don’t know just how it evolved to multicellular organisms.

They saw increases in disparity associated with both the emergence of the first multicellular fungi, and then the evolution of complex fruiting bodies such as mushrooms and saddles in dikaryotic ...

The world would look very different without multicellular organisms – take away the plants, animals, fungi, and seaweed, and Earth starts to look like a wetter, greener version of Mars. But precisely ...

They're related, they're kingdom mammalia. And oyster mushrooms and morels are both fungi, but they are not closely related within the kingdom. So wrapping your head around that is the first step in ...