Using this method, it was possible to establish the near-simultaneous emergence of two distinct fungal lineages from the ... in the mutualism between fungi and ants have long argued that the ...

The bulk of eukaryotic diversity is microbial, with plants, animals and fungi representing only three of some 60–200 lineages of eukaryotes. Many of these microbial lineages are understudied, yet the ...

“Fungi and animals are very closely related on the evolutionary ... collective invasion may be a generic property of social cells preserved across evolutionary lineages. Moreover, Newman adds, the ...