A fossilized ant and fly preserved in 99-million-year-old amber have revealed one of the oldest known examples of parasitic ...

If you go to the Internet and look up “snake oil” you will find the following definition from the source Wikipedia: “Snake oil is an expression that originally referred to fraudulent health products ...

A Scottish company is helping to regrow forests with specially-made mushroom pellets, using the “superpowers” of fungi. Teams ...

Think fungi are just mushrooms and mold? Think again. Over 90% of fungal species are still unknown, and scientists are discovering new ones all the time. This World Fungus Day, dive into the hidden, ...

In recent years there has been a surge of interest in functional genomics research in filamentous fungi and oomycetes. This has been facilitated by several important advances. Firstly, the development ...

In natural ecosystems, bacterial communities play an important role in nutrient cycling, primary production and decomposition 1. Bacteria are also heavily consumed by bacterivorous nematodes that are ...