Long before geese started flying in chevron formation or cyclists learned the value of drafting, fungi discovered an aerodynamic way to reduce drag on their spores so as to spread them as high and ...

This, suggests the authors, shows how the production of spores by fungi could have a significant impact on the formation of raindrops over forests where they typically live. While this could be ...

Scientists have learned that another species of fungus found in Europe and Asia causes white-nose disease, which has ravaged ...

A special enzyme on the surface of the fungal spores—glycosylasparaginase—apparently suppresses the release of ...

For fungal spores inside the lumps, getting gulped by a bird could beat just drifting on some air current to find new homes, Boast and colleagues propose January 15 in Biology Letters. Hitchhiker ...

The species (Gibellula attenboroughii) forces reclusive arachnids into exposed areas, likely to benefit the dispersal of spores, researchers report January 24 in Fungal Systematics and Evolution.