My colleague, André De Kesel from the Botanic Garden Meise in Belgium, and myself wrote a review article about Hesperomyces virescens,...
Category : Fungi
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
(By Walter P. Pfliegler & Danny Haelewaters) Bats (Chiroptera) sustain highly diverse communities of invertebrate parasites. Two...
Forensic Mycology: Taking Hebeloma to Court
A few years ago, I must have been 2009, I was part of the Netherlands Forensic Institute, in particular of 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...
Exserohilum rostratum, the killing fungus
There are hundreds of topics I could write about. The hardest part about writing is choosing a suitable topic and sticking with it until...
