By Jason Stajich, on December 4th, 2008
The Scientist has an article about airborne opportunistic fungal infections and interviewing several Cryptococcus researchers including Karen Bartlett and James Fraser.
The Encyclopedia of Life website has an article about the Mushroom Observer blog and the opportunity for more volunteers to curate organism pages at EOL.
NY Times article on how bark beetle are spreading fungi and [...]
By Jason Stajich, on September 16th, 2008
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 [...]