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Category : Fungi
New species of fungus sticking out of beetles named after the COVID-19 quarantine
A major comprehensive study on Herpomycetales and Laboulbeniales, two orders of unique ectoparasitic fungi associated with insects and...
New fungal taxa from a Panamanian cloud forest
I realized that it took me about two years to get back online on my website. Oops. The hardest part was then figuring out how to do this,...
Review published!
My colleague, André De Kesel from the Meise Botanic Garden in Belgium, and myself wrote a review article about Hesperomyces virescens,...
Diversity on a stick, and other fungi
While I should be working on my PhD thesis, things have been crazy around our Boston Harbor Islands project. End of 2012, I started a...
Parasites of parasites: blood-sucking bat flies infected with enigmatic Laboulbeniales fungi
Bats (Chiroptera) sustain highly diverse communities of invertebrate parasites. Two families of flies (Diptera: Nycteribiidae and...
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...
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