Comments on: Fungi in Motion http://theartfulamoeba.com/2011/06/21/fungi-in-motion/ A blog about the weird wonderfulness of life on Earth Fri, 07 Mar 2014 01:10:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.31 By: Bruce http://theartfulamoeba.com/2011/06/21/fungi-in-motion/comment-page-1/#comment-3622 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:25:24 +0000 http://theartfulamoeba.com/?p=5091#comment-3622 Thanks! Cool stuff.

]]> By: Contagions Round-up 12: Friends, Romans, and Microbes Naturally « Contagions http://theartfulamoeba.com/2011/06/21/fungi-in-motion/comment-page-1/#comment-2663 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:55:00 +0000 http://theartfulamoeba.com/?p=5091#comment-2663 […] Jennifer Fraser of An Artful Amoeba has a guest post on Scientific American blogs on When Cells Discovered Architecture and a post on her blog on Fungi in Motion. […]

]]> By: Dana http://theartfulamoeba.com/2011/06/21/fungi-in-motion/comment-page-1/#comment-2648 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 15:20:35 +0000 http://theartfulamoeba.com/?p=5091#comment-2648 Great post! Your video was super helpful in my entry yesterday. Glad to find this blog as well; mycology has been quickly rising to the top of favorite things, beside plant pathology and science writing.

]]> By: “The mushroom, of course!” « Nabokov's Notebook http://theartfulamoeba.com/2011/06/21/fungi-in-motion/comment-page-1/#comment-2647 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:54:39 +0000 http://theartfulamoeba.com/?p=5091#comment-2647 […] *Courtesy of The Artful Amoeba […]

]]> By: Quinn O'Neill http://theartfulamoeba.com/2011/06/21/fungi-in-motion/comment-page-1/#comment-2636 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 03:20:33 +0000 http://theartfulamoeba.com/?p=5091#comment-2636 Awesome post. Love it.

]]> By: Endless Forms Most Beautiful » Blog Archive http://theartfulamoeba.com/2011/06/21/fungi-in-motion/comment-page-1/#comment-2589 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:20:37 +0000 http://theartfulamoeba.com/?p=5091#comment-2589 […] do not miss this great write-up on the video by Jennifer Frazer over at Artful Amoeba. Jennifer gives a play-by-play of […]

]]> By: Jennifer Frazer http://theartfulamoeba.com/2011/06/21/fungi-in-motion/comment-page-1/#comment-2585 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 04:42:12 +0000 http://theartfulamoeba.com/?p=5091#comment-2585 Kathryn — Yes! In fact, fungi (as well as many other groups of organisms) use the group of chemicals called melanins. In addition to providing UV protection, melanins actually seem to help pathogenic fungi attack and invade their hosts. Pretty amazing stuff! Coincidentally, if you live out west, melanins in the fungi carried by mountain pine beetles are what stains the lodgepole pine wood “blue”. Somehow, brown/black melanin looks blue in yellow wood . . .
For more info see
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12734441
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanin#In_other_organisms
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0002993
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1049964404001586#secx10
http://www.genomealberta.ca/blogs/main_05090801.aspx

It appears there may even be fungi that use melanins as radiosynthetic pigments to convert gamma rays to food in the abandoned Chernobyl power plant!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus
I had no idea there were autotrophic fungi until I started looking into this . . .

It looks like even slime molds have gotten in on the melanin action . . .
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095375628980067X

Dina and Kimberly — Interesting. Thanks!

]]> By: dinahmow http://theartfulamoeba.com/2011/06/21/fungi-in-motion/comment-page-1/#comment-2584 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:15:56 +0000 http://theartfulamoeba.com/?p=5091#comment-2584 Hi! You might find this http://icelines.blogspot.com/2011/06/tuesday-poem-gromiadna-silent-creature.html interesting.
Well, it’s about tiny critters (protists) in strange places!

]]> By: Kimberly Gerson http://theartfulamoeba.com/2011/06/21/fungi-in-motion/comment-page-1/#comment-2583 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:40:55 +0000 http://theartfulamoeba.com/?p=5091#comment-2583 Ok, so I can’t type .. that would be Mucor …

]]> By: Kimberly Gerson http://theartfulamoeba.com/2011/06/21/fungi-in-motion/comment-page-1/#comment-2582 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:33:01 +0000 http://theartfulamoeba.com/?p=5091#comment-2582 Great video.. and I love that mite photo. Feels very sci fi. I blogged on fungus today as well. Micor, to be precise. Must be in the air .. so to speak.

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