A parasitic fungus takes over the brains of flies and controls them for its own sinister ends. Here’s the science behind the ...

Ants have been farming fungi since shortly after an asteroid triggered a mass extinction 66 million years ago, according to a ...

For the study, Lumba and her fellow researchers investigated why and how fungi respond to SLs. Eighty per cent of plants rely on this symbiotic relationship, and enhancing the interaction with ...

While these fungi were described in the scientific literature as early as the mid-1800s, the extent and precision of the behavioral control that they exert on their unfortunate insect hosts—and the ...

A sinister fungus is spreading through California's bat populations, threatening their survival just as the spooky season ...

With more drug-resistant fungi emerging because of climate change and aging populations, Gusa emphasizes the urgent need for new antifungal treatments to prevent a potential fungal pandemic. Gusa is ...

After several generations, the health of the fungi began to improve. Genetic studies showed that the fungi were changing and adapting to their new resident bacteria. The bacteria also changed. Both ...

“Unlike other similar looking ‘Coral’ fungi, these grow on decaying wood, instead of emerging from the ground." He seeks rare ...

McMaster University biologist Jianping Xu is part of a team studying the bacteria and fungi that grow on bats' wings and can ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto have cracked the code of plant-to-fungi communication in a new study published in the journal Molecular Cell. "As we begin to understand how plants and ...

How do plants and fungi communicate with each other? This is what a recent study published in Molecular Cell hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated the “language” ...

Dr Schultz has spent 35 years studying the evolutionary relationship between ants and fungi, and over the years his team has collected thousands of genetic samples of ants and fungi from ...