Entomophthora muscae hides in plain sight, feeding on its hosts before controlling their behavior to spread with devastating ...

Called Massospora, the fungal parasite is known to infect cicadas and essentially turn them into the "walking dead." First, ...

Researchers at the University of São Paulo found 62 proteins specific to spores of Aspergillus fumigatus, a fungal species that causes lung disease. The study, published in Nature Microbiology, showed ...

Latgé and colleagues, writing in a recent issue of Nature, show that the surface hydrophobin (RodA) that forms the rodlet layer around fungal spores (the conidia) prevents their recognition by ...