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In the damp understory of forests in Taiwan, mainland Japan, and Okinawa, a plant called Balanophora can fool you at first ...

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Some plants bend the rules of plant life so far that they barely resemble plants at all. Balanophora is one of them - a ...

For decades, a silent killer has slaughtered frogs and salamanders around the world by eating their skins alive. Now, a global team of 41 scientists has announced that the pathogen—which humans ...

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In filamentous fungi septation occurs during both vegetative growth and conidiation. New results recently published in Eukaryotic Cell now indicate that in Neurospora crassa these two septation ...

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