A technique called confocal laser scanning flourescence microsopy uses a die that binds to chitin, unique to fungi, seen here glowing green on the exterior of the fungal filaments, in a fossil ...

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some ...

Paleontologists studying insects trapped in amber from 99 million years ago have made a remarkable discovery: an ant and a ...

A team co-led by a Purdue University researcher has found that groups of fungi influence global tree species in distinct ways ...

Mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems around the world, but remain largely understudied, especially in arid regions. They ...

Antonis Rokas, a fungal biologist at Vanderbilt University who was not affiliated with the study, calls the work a tour de ...

Two bits of amber discovered in a lab basement hold ancient evidence of a fungi famous for controlling the minds of its victims.

Despite fungi's known global biogeochemistry, our knowledge regarding their contribution to ecology and biochemical cycles in the oceanic realm is rather ...

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Fungal genomics is a scientific discipline that concerns the genome, encompassing the entire hereditary information, of fungi. Fungal genomics can, for example, be used to study fungal evolution ...

Amylose films blended with chitosan, which were free from additives such as acid, salt, and plasticizer, were prepared by casting mixtures of an aqueous solution of an enzymatically synthesized ...