Despite decades of study, researchers still believed that the fungi only reproduced asexually. That misunderstanding limited how scientists could genetically manipulate the fungi for industrial ...

A new study on the sex life of molds is raising startling new questions about gene silencing, speciation and perhaps some facets of human reproduction. A new study on the sex life of molds is raising ...

For over 100 years, it was assumed that the penicillin-producing mold fungus, Penicillium chrysogenum, only reproduced asexually through spores. Biologists have now shown for the first time that the ...