Bats (Chiroptera) sustain highly diverse communities of invertebrate parasites. Two families of flies (Diptera: Nycteribiidae and...
Category : Fungi
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...
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...
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...
