Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

He called the organism Prototaxites, meaning “first conifer.” The name stuck, even though the fossil didn’t quite match any ...

研究成果近日以 Taxonomic Revision of? Solorina? (Peltigeraceae, Ascomycota), Reveals a New Genus and Three New Species 为题，发表在真菌学期刊 Journal of Fungi 上 青藏高原被喻为“世界屋脊”，独特而多样的地理环境，孕育了极为丰富的物种，是全球生物多样性的热点地区。第二次青藏 ...

Members of the ascomycete fungi genus Fusarium range from plant pathogens to soil dwellers. The publication of a genomic comparison of several Fusarium species sheds light on the differences ...

Ever since their discovery more than 165 years ago, massive fossilized structures left by an organism known as Prototaxites ...

This piece was thought to resemble structures found in modern Ascomycota, a group of fungi that includes yeasts and molds. But not all researchers were convinced. Some doubted whether the so ...

Up until 2016, lichen was thought to be a partnership between one alga and one fungus, the classic symbiotic relationship. Then came the observation than in fact lichen harbors two types of fungi—an ...