Bats (Chiroptera) sustain highly diverse communities of invertebrate parasites. Two families of flies (Diptera: Nycteribiidae and...
Category : Fungi
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Forensic Mycology: Taking Hebeloma to Court
A few years ago, it must have been 2009, I was an intern at the Netherlands Forensic Institute, working at the Line Department...
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Parasite host specificity related to host susceptibility to be killed?
In a previous post I introduced the Laboulbeniales: microscopic ascomycetous fungi that parasitize invertebrates, mainly beetles. The...
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Microscopic fungal parasites reveal host’s behavior
Mycologists have long debated about which organisms should be or should be not counted as fungi. The Kingdom Fungi includes a lot of...