A fungus named in honor of Sir David Attenborough is warping the bodies and even minds of spiders in Ireland. Researchers found that many Metellina merianae spiders across Ireland have become ...
A 2016 study provided the first evidence that fungus-infected spiders may also be changing their behaviour, moving from their characteristic concealed niches to die in elevated or freely-exposed ...
Figure 3. Phylogenetic position of newly sequenced Uzbekistan specimens of wood-inhabiting poroid and corticioid fungi based on a combination of ITS and nLSU sequences. Maximum likelihood tree with ...
Admittedly, the highest yield does not necessarily mean the most accurate results in terms of microbial composition. However, since fungi form a marginal community in fecal samples, the capability of ...
Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across ...