But when Blanchette compared the DNA of the fungi discovered at the explorer huts with a database of known species, he found three types of fungi that were clearly distinct from any temperate ...

Reporting in Current Biology today (January 17), Veera Tuovinen of the University of Alberta and her colleagues describe wolf lichens (Letharia) that are made up of an alga along with three types of ...

Despite its name, there’s no worm involved — instead, this type of infection is caused entirely by contagious fungi. As with ...