Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some of the oldest direct evidence of parasitic relationships between fungi and ...

As early fungi made the evolutionary journey from water to land and branched off from animals, they shed tail-like flagella that propelled them through their aquatic environment and evolved a ...

A billion years of coexistence between plants and fungi Date: February 6, 2019 Source: Virginia Tech Summary: What can a billion years of coexistence tell us about the evolution of plants and fungi?

Researchers at the Yale School of Public Health have discovered the evolutionary rhythm of gene expression, showing that ...

Scientists have found a "tipping point" in the evolution of fungi that throttles their growth and sculpts their shapes. The findings, published in the journal Cell Reports, demonstrate how small ...

The fossils change our story, too: Their age pushes back the broader timeline for the evolution of not just fungi, but also animals. Because fungi are critical to healthy ecosystems, often breaking ...

Scientists have found a “tipping point” in the evolution of fungi that throttles their growth and sculpts their shapes. The findings, published in the journal Cell Reports, demonstrate how ...

A study investigates the evolution of beneficial bacteria that live inside and on the surface of farming ants. Attine ants farm fungi, in one of the natural world's best-studied mutualistic symbioses.

This article was originally published with the title “ Accident of Evolution Allows Fungi to Thrive in Our Bodies ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 309 No. 6 (December 2013) doi:10.1038 ...

According to Schultz, this phylogenetic reconstruction is only the start of understanding the diversity and evolution of fungi-farming ants. More than 230 species of the ants have been described, and ...