160-Million-Year-Old Blue-Stain Fungus Fossils Found in China
The discovery of a fossil blue-stain fungus colonizing the insect-infested conifer wood Xenoxylon phyllocladoides in China’s Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation extends the earliest fossil record of blue-stain fungi by approximately 80 million years, reshaping the timeline of evolution of this fungal group, and provides new insights into the evolution of their ecological associations with wood-boring insects. … Read more