Threats posed by the fungal kingdom to humans, wildlife, and agriculture

MC Fisher, SJ Gurr, CA Cuomo, DS Blehert, H Jin… - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
The fungal kingdom includes at least 6 million eukaryotic species and is remarkable with
respect to its profound impact on global health, biodiversity, ecology, agriculture …

Why does the microbiome affect behaviour?

KVA Johnson, KR Foster - Nature reviews microbiology, 2018 - nature.com
Growing evidence indicates that the mammalian microbiome can affect behaviour, and
several symbionts even produce neurotransmitters. One common explanation for these …

[HTML][HTML] A 2-kb mycovirus converts a pathogenic fungus into a beneficial endophyte for Brassica protection and yield enhancement

H Zhang, J Xie, Y Fu, J Cheng, Z Qu, Z Zhao, S Cheng… - Molecular plant, 2020 - cell.com
Mycoviruses are viruses that infect fungi, and hypovirulence-associated mycoviruses have
the potential to control fungal diseases. However, it is unclear how mycovirus-mediated …

Microbial volatile emissions as insect semiochemicals

TS Davis, TL Crippen, RW Hofstetter… - Journal of chemical …, 2013 - Springer
We provide a synthesis of the literature describing biochemical interactions between
microorganisms and insects by way of microbial volatile organic compound (MVOC) …

Endless forms most beautiful 2.0: teleonomy and the bioengineering of chimaeric and synthetic organisms

WP Clawson, M Levin - Biological Journal of the Linnean …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The rich variety of biological forms and behaviours results from one evolutionary history on
Earth, via frozen accidents and selection in specific environments. This ubiquitous baggage …

Diversity of entomopathogenic fungi: which groups conquered the insect body?

JPM Araújo, DP Hughes - Advances in genetics, 2016 - Elsevier
The entomopathogenic fungi are organisms that evolved to exploit insects. They comprise a
wide range of morphologically, phylogenetically, and ecologically diverse fungal species …

[图书][B] The fungal community: its organization and role in the ecosystem

J Dighton, JF White - 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
"… a number of chapters provide excellent summaries of the modern methods available for
studying fungal ecology, along with those more traditional methods that are still extremely …

Defining an epidemiological landscape that connects movement ecology to pathogen transmission and pace‐of‐life

K Manlove, M Wilber, L White… - Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Pathogen transmission depends on host density, mobility and contact. These components
emerge from host and pathogen movements that themselves arise through interactions with …

Three-dimensional visualization and a deep-learning model reveal complex fungal parasite networks in behaviorally manipulated ants

MA Fredericksen, Y Zhang, ML Hazen… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Some microbes possess the ability to adaptively manipulate host behavior. To better
understand how such microbial parasites control animal behavior, we examine the cell-level …

[图书][B] Posthumanism: anthropological insights

A Smart, J Smart - 2017 - books.google.com
Designed to explain posthumanism to those outside of academia, this brief and accessible
book makes an original argument about anthropology's legacy as a study of" more than …