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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 ...

But sometimes, infections develop. People may pick up an infectious type of fungi while walking barefoot. Alternatively, the fungi that is already on their skin or nails may become opportunistic.

The fungi provided essential minerals for land plants that allowed them to spread and turn the planet green — changing the composition of the atmosphere. Three hundred and sixty million years ...