They created a time-calibrated phylogenetic tree, which is essentially a map showing when different groups of fungi arose and diverged - creating more diversity. Although this history extends well ...

PhD students in the Cunliffe Group are supported by the UKRI BBSRC/NERC SWBio, ARIES and INSPIRE Doctoral Training Partnerships and the Marine Biological Association. Fungi don’t just live in ...

A new study from EMBL Heidelberg's Dey group and their collaborators, recently published in Nature, explores how different modes of cell division evolved in close relatives of fungi and animals ...

Cladosporium sphaerospermum belongs to a group of fungi known as radiotrophic fungi. Radiotrophic organisms can capture and utilize ionizing radiation to drive metabolic processes. While this ...

Fungi — nature's ultimate survivor — thrived to inherit the earth. But so did an until-then insignificant animal group, mammals. Mammals had one built-in advantage over the reptiles ...