Mycology is the study of fungi
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First genomic survey of human skin fungal diversity
"The researchers found that a single type of fungus, belonging to the genus Malassezia, is predominant on the head and trunk. Hands, which harbor a great diversity of bacteria, are home for relatively ...
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Endophytic Xylariaceae: diversity and taxonomy inferred from rDNA sequence analyses
"Thailand is considered as one of the areas containing a high percentage of unknown taxa of Xylariaceae (Rogers 2000). In Thailand, several studies on endophytic fungi have been documented, namely, ...
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International standard to prepare an International journal [closed]
Any of you could give the link or reference regarding International standard to prepare an International journal on microbiology field?
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Zombie Ant Fungus?
Ophiocordyceps unilateralis is a parasitoidal fungus that alters the behavior of the infected.
Source: Wiki page.
How is the fungus able to alter the behavior of the infected to such specfic ...
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What kind of microscope should be used to view biological structures (such as spores) roughly 5 µm in length?
I would like to be able to identify genera of fungi based on the shape, size, and colour of spores. So the requirements are:
Must be able to view a 5 micrometre object clearly with reasonable ...
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Black mold on years old soaked paper [closed]
Recently I bought a box of really old trading card game and unfortunately it has been soaked some time ago in the past. Some of the packages were fully damaged and the cards where covered with black ...
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An unexpected mushroom in my garden
My grandma is a great fan of mushrooms and knows quite a lot about them. About 10 years ago, she started throwing out mushroom remnants in one special place, in order to grow her own mushrooms. In ...
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Do all mushrooms have the same multicellular ancestor?
Do all mushrooms have the same multicellular ancestor? Did that ancestor feature common mushroom elements such as cap, stem, sporofore, vulva, bulb, etc.
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What is the species of these mushrooms?
The mushrooms are gilled with a light-brown cap. The stem is widened to the base.
What species is it? Is it considered edible?
They are found in mixed forest in Moscow, Russia. They grow in the ...
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How do parasitic fungi sense optimal fruiting conditions from inside the host?
Question is pretty straight forward. Are there generally any chemical cues?
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What is the difference between “dikaryotic” and “heterokaryotic” states in the sexual lifecyles of fungi?
Many fungi undergo a reproductive phase in which more than one genetically distinct nuclei (from 2 separate mating types) is present within the same cytoplasm. In the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota, ...
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Is Aspergillus clavatus an unicellular organism?
I could not find the piece of information form Burton Human Parasitology -book and not by Google.
Yeast is divided to two phylums: one of them is Ascomycota.
Aspergillus clavatus belong to the given ...
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How do fungi react to being grown in a tissue culture?
I know how plant cells and animal cells react to being cultured and grown this way, but what about mushrooms? Would they respond like plants, and result in embryos growing off the mass? Or does the ...
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How do fairy rings propagate?
It was somewhat new to me that mushrooms usually aren't individual organisms, but are merely the visible bodies of a bunch of fungi living in the soil. I know that mushrooms emit spores to reproduce, ...
