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Escaping the dung pile quickly: Speedy Pilobolus spores

Sporangiophore discharge in the fungus Pilobolus kleinii captured with high speed video. In a paper appearing today in PLoS One, “The Fastest Flights in Nature: High-Speed Spore Discharge Mechanisms among Fungi” Nicholas Money and colleagues including 6 undergraduates and 3 graduate students, have measured the speed of flight of spores discharging from several Ascomycete and Zygomycete dung [...]