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• Parasitic fungus may have emerged 18 million years before the ants with which it lives today (Phys.org 8Dec2025)

└Digging into the evolutionary history of the fungus-growing-ant symbiont, Escovopsis (Hypocreaceae) (Montoya et al., 2025)

• The fungus among us: Study shows fungi form living bridges to share water between neighboring plants (Phys.org 30Jul2025)

└Evidence for common fungal networks among plants formed by a Dark Septate Endophyte in Sorghum bicolor (Bock et al., 2025)

• Soil-dwelling fungi shape tree diversity through complex underground partnerships, global study reveals (Phys.org 25Jun2025)

└Mycorrhizal symbioses and tree diversity in global forest communities (Jiang et al., 2025)

• Fungal Spores in the Air May Signal Upcoming Flu and COVID Surges (ScienceBlog 20Jun2025)

• Coveted red dye may owe its origins to a hidden fungal partner in lac insects (Phys.org 17Jun2025)

└Vaishally et al. (2025) An endosymbiotic origin of the crimson pigment from the lac insect

• Yeast Converts Human Urine Into Valuable Bone Material (ScienceBlog 17Jun2025)

└Muller et al. (2025) Cost-effective urine recycling enabled by a synthetic osteoyeast platform for production of hydroxyapatite

• Mysterious fungi: Researchers pinpoint hotspots of 'dark taxa' across Earth's underground ecosystems (Phys.org 10Jun2025)

└van Galen et al. (2025) The biogeography and conservation of Earth’s ‘dark’ ectomycorrhizal fungi

• Africa has the highest rate of forest loss in the world—what the G20 can do about it (The Conversation, 4Jun2025)

• Bacteria hitch a ride on yeast puddles to zoom around (Phys.org, 4Jun2025)

└Badal et al. (2025) Dynamic fluid layer around immotile yeast colonies mediates the spread of bacteria

• Yeast reveals how species adapt to a warmer climate (Phys.org, 21May2025)

└Molinet & Stelkens (2025) The evolution of thermal performance curves in response to rising temperatures across the model genus yeast

• How lichens are bringing stone to life and reconnecting us with the natural world (The Conversation, 19May2025)

• Lichens could survive on Mars (Phys.org, 8Apr2025)

└Skubala et al. (2025) Ionizing radiation resilience: how metabolically active lichens endure exposure to the simulated Mars atmosphere

• Inoculating soil with mycorrhizal fungi can increase plant yield by up to 40% (Phys.org, 29Nov2023)

└Lutz et al. 2023. Soil microbiome indicators can predict crop growth response to large-scale inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

• Mycorrhizae may help store more than a third of fossil fuel emissions (ZME Science, 6Jun2023)

└Hawkins et al. 2023. Mycorrhizal mycelium as a global carbon pool

• Findings suggest that fungal mycelia can 'recognize' shapes (Phys.org 8Oct2024)

└Fukasawa et al. (2024) Spatial resource arrangement influences both network structures and activity of fungal mycelia: A form of pattern recognition?

• Fungi "sweat" to stay cool (LiveScience 5Jun2023)

└Cordero et al. (2023) The hypothermic nature of fungi

• The Toxin That Helps Oyster Mushrooms Devour Worm Flesh (NY Times 18Jan2023)

• Are Trees Talking Underground? For Scientists, It's In Dispute (NY Times 7Nov2022)

• The Idea That Trees Talk to Cooperate Is Misleading (SciAm 19Jul2021)

• Lichens are a symbiosis of three (not two) partners (Science 2016)

• Plants force fungal partners to behave fairly (University of Zurich 2016)

• Researchers evolve a multicellular yeast in the lab in 2 months (Ratcliff et al., 2011)

• Mycorrhizae may not be mutually beneficial (IIASA, 2014)

• On Fungi and Forest Diversity (In Defense of Plants, 2017)

• Coevolution of roots and mycorrhizae (Brundrett, 2002)

• Berkeley Chytrid Page

• Frogs, once used for pregnancy tests, were attacked by chytrids

• Stinky Cheese is the Result of Evolutionary Overdrive - New York Times (Sep. 2015)

• Marine fungi could help feed the world and fight disease (The Conversation 13Jun2025)

• David Attenborough: Secret Life of Fungi

• Ancient plant-fungal partnerships reveal how the world became green