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 ...

Since Prototaxites were discovered in the fossil record in 1843, scientists have debated whether they were early land plants, ...

Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

In this study, they found that oligotrophic species such as Acidobacteriota, Chloroflexi, Verrucomicrobiota, and Ascomycota were predominantly enriched above the treeline ... were more critical for ...

Sample IDs as used in figures and text. b Average Mn oxidation state of the solids as determined via LCFs of XANES spectra, with an estimated uncertainty of approximately 0.04 valence units ...

Université du Québec provides funding as a partner of The Conversation CA-FR. Fungi are among the most important organisms on Earth. Even though most of the world’s described 157,000 fungal ...

The observed shifts in dominant species, particularly the decrease in Ascomycota dominance and the increase in Basidiomycota, as well as changes in community stability and complexity, have important ...

Fungi are among the most important organisms on Earth. Even though most of the world's described 157,000 fungal species are only visible with a microscope, these organisms are essential to our ...

They specifically looked at fungi in fecal samples from 35 children with ADHD and 35 children without the condition. These fungi comprise your mycobiome (“myco-” meaning fungus, and “biome ...

Because of their short generation times and large population sizes, fungi can evolve rapidly. FpnA, an Aspergillus fumigatus homolog of the human iron transporter ferroportin showed no iron efflux ...