Twenty years ago the palaeontological community gasped as geoscientists revealed evidence for the oldest bacterial fossils on the planet. Now, a report in Nature Geoscience 1 shows that the filament ...

Algae is a ubiquitous feature in waterways throughout the globe, including western North America. Slippery, green epilithic algae is a familiar sight on river rocks. Toxic blue-green ...

The Riley Purgatory Bluff Creek Watershed District recently shared the following information about green algae to educate community members: “Have you noticed thick, stringy algae floating on your ...

Filamentous fungi have long been a good friend of sake brewers, but they might soon also be a sidekick for environmentalists. Osaka Metropolitan University researchers have revealed the regulatory ...

Segmented filamentous bacteria (SFBs) are exactly what they sound like - a group of bacteria defined by their morphology. These bacteria were first described in 1974, but they have not been formally ...

A research team analyzed the regulatory mechanisms of carbohydrate-hydrolyzing enzyme production in Aspergillus aculeatus, a filamentous fungus that produces enzymes with an excellent ability to ...