The genus contains fungi that produce small tubular or cup-shaped cyphelloid fruit bodies.

The fossilized plants containing mycorrhizal fungi were preserved in silica.

Rather than containing an insect or two, they contain bacteria, fungi, algae and protozoans - a who's who of micro-organisms from the Triassic.

The mouth normally contains fungi that can exist on or in the body without causing any problems.

This water contains unsanitary agents, harmful bacteria and fungi, causing severe discomfort or sickness.

Wood dust also frequently contains chemicals and fungi, which can become airborne and lodge deeply in the lungs, causing illness and damage.

They contain endophytes, or fungi, which are intolerable to ground-feeding insects like chinch bugs, sod webworms and cutworms.

Frass contains abundant amoebae, beneficial bacteria, and fungi.

The gene is also active in roots containing fungi forming phosphate-acquiring arbuscular mycorrhiza.

Outside the animal kingdom, there are several genera containing carnivorous plants and several phyla containing carnivorous fungi.