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

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 ...

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 ...

Viable cultures of molds produce spores called “conidia.” The size and shape of the conidia and conidia-bearing structures as viewed with a light microscope can often identify the fungus to its genus ...

First, the spores infect the bugs, which begin producing "conidia," a type of fungal spore that makes them highly infections ...