Then came the chemical analysis. Fungal cell walls contain chitin, a tough substance also found in insect shells. When chitin breaks down during fossilization, it leaves behind sugars like ...

The tips of these fungi grow by synthesizing new cell wall on the extending side, but scientists have puzzled over how they control growth through such tight spaces. Norio Takeshita of the University ...

The researchers also did not find evidence of chitin or chitosan molecules in the cell walls of all extinct and current fungi groups known to science. More broadly, the researchers documented ...