Analysis - If you walk through a forest and look down, you might think you're stepping on dead leaves, twigs and soil. In reality, you're walking over a vast underground patchwork of fungal filaments, ...

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 ...

There could be a whole underground world of psychedelic-producing fungi waiting to be uncovered. For now, though, she’s taking a moment to reflect on how much came from a chance observation.

Lichens are symbionts, or two organisms that are in a cooperative relationship. There is a fungal component (most are about 90 percent fungus) and a photosynthetic component (algae or cyanobacteria).

BEIJING -- Researchers have uncovered a significant number of new fungal species on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, with findings published in the Journal of Fungi and Fungal Diversity, as reported on ...

When Oreorchis patens grows close to rotten wood, it shifts its fungal symbionts to those that decompose the wood and significantly increases the amount of nutrients it takes from them—without ...

Reviewer #2 (Public review): Summary: In this exciting study, Cesar and co-authors perform a meta-analysis on the influence of arthropod symbionts on the fitness of their hosts when they are exposed ...

Reviewer #2 (Public review): Summary: In this exciting study, Cesar and co-authors perform a meta-analysis on the influence of arthropod symbionts on the fitness of their hosts when they are exposed ...

A study investigates the evolution of beneficial bacteria that live inside and on the surface of farming ants. Attine ants farm fungi, in one of the natural world's best-studied mutualistic symbioses.