Steve Darling, the group's secretary, said "we have discovered orchids and a rare kind of fungi that have not been seen in ...

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 ...

Since then, the identification, isolation, and synthesis of novel bioactive compounds from plants, fungi, and bacteria have become fundamental to drug development. Recently, two groups of ...

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 ...

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 ...

From helping plants to colonize terrestrial earth to treating disease in humans, is there anything fungi can’t do? Chris Dart Neither plants nor animals, fungi are the most underappreciated ...

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 ...