If you walk through a forest and look down, you might think you're stepping on dead leaves, twigs and soil. In reality, ...

In some orchids, photosynthesis is out and parasitism is in. Instead of making food from sunlight, some of these plants have become parasitic and primarily suck nutrients out of the fungi in their ...

Ambrosia beetles represent a remarkable example of insect–fungal mutualism, with their unique practices of cultivating symbiotic fungi within specialised structures known as mycangia.

Attine ants farm fungi, in one of the natural world's best-studied mutualistic ... Pseudonocardia indicates that Pseudonocardia were initially gut symbionts and became cuticular symbionts late in ...

Many of the fungi that produce these substances belong to the family Clavicipitaceae. While many species of morning glories have been found to contain ergot alkaloids, their fungal symbionts have ...

Reference: Kandasamy D, Zaman R, Nakamura Y, et al. Conifer-killing bark beetles locate fungal symbionts by detecting volatile fungal metabolites of host tree resin monoterpenes. PLoS Biol. 2023;21(2) ...

To investigate the role that gut fungi play in intestinal health, the researchers utilized a mouse model for MASH. Mice were fed a high-fat, choline-deficient diet—a common model for inducing ...

Conifer-killing bark beetles locate fungal symbionts by detecting volatile fungal metabolites of host tree resin monoterpenes. PLoS Biology . Published online February 21, 2023. doi: 10.1371 ...