The work could help us better understand the evolution of sexual reproduction as well as showcases the increasing power of genome sequencing. While scientists have long suspected that certain species ...

“This was an opportunity to understand who might be there and what they’re doing, and also to discover some new fungal systems that might display interesting biology.” Black yeasts, in particular, ...

Fungi produce molecules that humans still can’t reproduce in a lab, and we’re only beginning to scrape the surface of what we can learn from them. Here are a few things we found out about the ...

Some fungi are able to reproduce both sexually and asexually. Fungi reproduce using spores which they release into the environment. A new fungus will grow from the spore. The Coprinus cinereus ...

Most fungi can’t grow and reproduce in the human body because it’s too warm. But experts say they’re evolving. National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Carlisle Companies.

They were considered to be ‘brood cells’ or organs of reproduction of the lichen-fungus. This interpretation of their function was accepted until the appearance of the classic work of ...