Student journalist Taryn Pollock explains what the ophiocordyceps unilateralis fungus is and why it is commonly called the ...

A fungus named in honor of Sir David ... but the Gibellula attenboroughii mainly infects spiders while Ophiocordyceps unilateralis targets ants. An earlier specimen of the infected spider had ...

Further observations revealed more infected spiders in caves in both ... pointing to the case of the zombie ant fungi. Scientists have documented the lethal parasite regulating the insect ...

Scientists say the behaviour of the fungus mirrors that of ants infected by fungi of the genus Ophiocordyceps, previously reported from the Atlantic rainforest of Brazil. The story of the "zombie ...

Characteristics of social immune memory were observed in colonies of Atta sexdens exposed to four different pathogenic fungi.

Leafcutter ants appear to remember past infections and respond more aggressively to familiar threats, according to a new ...

The fungus, which lives inside the leaves ... who are protected from predators by the ants. Plants that had previously been infected with the endophyte were more often colonized by aphids ...