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 ...

Blue-stain Fungi are a group of wood-colonising fungi that cause a characteristic discolouration in the sapwood of trees, ...

When trees and soil fungi form close associations ... symbiotic associations with fungi over the course of evolution. These mycorrhizal fungi, which either wrap themselves around roots or ...

When trees and soil fungi form close associations ... symbiotic associations with fungi over the course of evolution. These mycorrhizal fungi, which either wrap themselves around roots or ...

Protists (eukaryotes, excluding animals, land plants, and fungi) comprise the bulk of the eukaryotic phylogenetic tree, ...

A new analysis published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, however ... It’s not that relationships between trees and fungi don’t exist, says co-author Justine Karst, an ecologist at the ...

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 ...

Infected male alpine tree frogs set about fathering far more offspring, helping avoid extinction in the wild – for now.

University of Alberta research is showing how trees and fungi team up to survive and stay healthy against insect attacks—an alliance that could lead to more resilient forests. Endophytes—tiny ...

Fungi may help some tree-killer beetles turn a tree’s natural defense system against itself. This fungi-made perfume might explain why bark beetles tend to swarm the same tree. As climate change ...