All Articles Tagged As: fungus
 | Fungi don't exactly come in boy and girl varieties, but they do have sex differences. In fact, a new finding from Duke University Medical Center shows that some of the earliest evolved forms of fungus contain clues to how the sexes evolved in higher animals, including that distant cousin of fungus, the human. ...> Full Article |
 | The crystal structure of a molecule from a primitive fungus has served as a time machine to show researchers more about the evolution of life from the simple to the complex. ...> Full Article |
 | Lichens are extraordinary organisms, at once commonplace and exotic. They grow all around us on ordinary trees and rocks and stone walls. But as symbionts that can survive the Earth's most desolate frontiers, they also seem the stuff of science fiction. In reality, lichens are complex organisms comprising a fungus and an alga living in symbiosis. ...> Full Article |
 | Researchers discover remarkably small genes that produce mushroom toxin - a unique pathway previously unknown in fungi. ...> Full Article |
Cryptococcus neoformans is a major cause of fungal meningitis in predominantly immunocomprised individuals.
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 | Scientists develop method to decipher gene history at genome-wide level; initial use in fungi turns up evolutionary surprises ...> Full Article |
 | A deadly fungus that has decimated populations of mountain yellow-legged frogs in the Sierra Nevada can likely be spread by sexual reproduction, seriously complicating efforts to save the frogs from extinction, according to a new genetic analysis led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. ...> Full Article |
 | Research from The University of Nottingham sheds new light on a fascinating phenomenon of the natural world - the ability of some species to reproduce sexually without a partner. ...> Full Article |
 | Scientists at the University of Chicago and the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., have produced new evidence to finally resolve the mysterious identity of what they regard as one of the weirdest organisms that ever lived. ...> Full Article |
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