Schultz and Brady used standard PCR techniques to sequence four nuclear, protein-coding genes, placing ants known to practice five distinct systems of farming their fungal crops on an evolutionary ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

The fungus, which lives inside the leaves ... is important for understanding the complexity of the co-evolution of trees and other organisms with which they interact. The current study is just ...

During a billion years of evolution, they’ve become masters ... scientists argued about whether they were fungi, trees, lichens or plants. According to research by Dr. Francis Hueber of the ...

How will our forest trees cope with the loss of these bird ... Zealand's forests represents the end of millions of years of ...