Excited to share our study on and with Picuris Pueblo! It’s a true honor to have worked alongside the community. Combining oral history and genomics, we show a long-standing continuity in the US Southwest and challenge ideas of pre-Columbian population collapse.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ancient and present-day genomes from members of the Indigenous American tribe Picuris Pueblo in the US Southwest show genetic continuity with Ancestral Pueblo individuals from the Chaco Canyon, New Mexico.

https://go.nature.com/4cWV2Os

Are you a researcher in Brazil who's interested in coming to Berlin to work on global change, soil or fungi?

Can you also find some mushrooms 🍄 in the Christmas presents over there?

Small fungus-farming ants, Mycetosoritis hartmanni, in their subterranean garden. The fungus- a white stringy material- grows between the bits of debris fed to it by the ants. The ants then feed from the fungus- a true agricultural system. Texas.

Paper alert - Phylogenetic analysis of termite-associated Xylaria from Africa reveals hidden diversity #KUscience #MSCApostdoctoralfellowship #ERC_Research #H2020

New paper! With genus-level phylogenetics we (Meilinda Sulastri, Andre Rodrigues, Ester Gaya) merged the puffball family Lycoperdaceae with Agaricaceae and revive/assign new sections to the family!
link.springer.com/article/10.1... #science #fungi #taxonomy #agaricaceae #mushrooms #puffballs

We know that leafcutter ants are clever farmers. New research from Hess et al. shows the fungal cultivars also have thermal adaptations matching growth environments provided by ant farmers

#fungusfarmingants #ERCStG

academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

Dezenas de milhões de anos antes da revolução agrícola, formigas já cultivavam fungos. bit.ly/3CeIAvg

#evolução #genoma

I have just created the fungal systematics starter pack. Who do you think is missing?

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