João Araújo
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Mycologist/Fungi Curator @NHM_Denmark and Assist Professor @koebenhavns_uni . Diversity & Evolution of Cordyceps Fungi. Macro-Photography of mind-blowing fungi.
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Today, I officially started my very own lab! It has a been a looong road, but I couldn’t be happier to be based in such a fabulous place with amazing colleagues. Looking forward for what is to come… 🍄 🐜 🐞 🌳 (a cool logo is coming soon)
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@antoniotabet
Duas perspectivas. Uma, mostrar que esse lance de pronome só importa pra galera do Leblon, outra é ficar ridicularizando as pessoas desse jeito.
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Cordyceps do not manipulate the host behavior, Ophiocordyceps do. The zombie fungi are a mega diverse group. They are found not only deep in the forest, but can be near you! Check these and other info about
#TheLastOfUsHBO
fungus on my last article
@NYBG
.
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The genus Purpureocillium is known to cause eye infections in immunocompromised patients worldwide. We never know when the next outbreak into humans will happen, hence the need to understand biodiversity. But, some species are just pure beauty aren't they?!
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It's official!!! I will start my own lab as Assistant Curator in Mycology at
@NYBG
! Looking forward to keep discovering the beauties of entomopathogenic fungi and their associated mycoparasites! Very excited to work on this temple of Science and Arts and its AMAZING facilities!
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@lelispatricia
Acho engraçado pessoas sem o menor preparo sobre assuntos diplomáticos discorrer com tanta pseudo-propriedade sobre assuntos tão complexos. Esse é o problemas das redes sociais, fazer com que as pessoas acreditem que têm opiniões relevantes.
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@fabiowoficial
E em tão pouco tempo ja recuperou o prestígio brasileiro no exterior. Impressionante não é mesmo? Tb acho.
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Happy to announce my new lab logo
@NYBG
!
In my lab we study Taxonomy, Systematics and Evolutionary Ecology of insect-associated Fungi. Looking forward for the new cool projects planned for 2022!
Artwork handmade by my talented friend
@riccardoborges
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The loneliness of a zombie-ant at the tip of a palm leaf, in the Amazonian forest...
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@randolfeap
Verdade, mas o mesmo se aplica a Lula. Palocci, Dirceu, e tantos outros, so Lula era correto 👍🏻
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@InteligenciaLta
@RogerioVilela
Sério?! Parem de dar palco pra essa gente, auto-entitulados "Fascistas".
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Ophiocordyceps baloonoides infecting a balloon-jacket wasp
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It's official!
I am delighted to announce I'm joining the
@NHM_Denmark
at the
@koebenhavns_uni
as a Mycology Curator/Assist Prof to continue working on Cordyceps fungi across Tropical forests and now, also exploring the Arctic! Beware, the zombie-ants are taking Europe! 🧟♂️🍄🐜
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Ophiocordyceps baloonioides, a new species from Japan 🇯🇵
By Masayoshi Matsumoto
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Ophiocordyceps dipterigena s.l. (likely a new species) collected today, on my backyard in Gainesville Florida. Isn't it AMAZING?!?!
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Spiders are often found victims of fascinating fungi exhibiting exuberant appearance and intriguing biology. This one seems to have turned its host into a birthday cake with candles!
🎂
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@KimKataguiri
“O careca assediador de mukheres do leste da Europa, o cassado por ser um tarado sem escrúpulos e sua trupe da pesada”… grande time!
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@LRobertoBarroso
Barroso, isso ficou muito claro. Não espere que Bolsonaristas entendam alguma coisa. Só repetirão o que os marginais que eles seguem os mandam dizer.
A maioria do Brasil não vê a hora de se livrar desse câncer chamado Bolsonarismo.
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In my last article, published yesterday, I just wanted to make sure the president
@jairbolsonaro
and the Brazilian Government would be properly acknowledged.
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Sci-art is such a great tool to communicate science... Nature is such a great inspiration
#sciart
#ambrosiabeetles
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Ophiocordyceps fulgoromorphila that usually dies in the Colombian forests. We can notice the darker, horizontal stem that remains underneath soil and the lighter part that erupts towards the open air, aiming to shoot the spores and infect new Fulgoridae hemipterans.
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Just put my hands on the current issue of Persoonia, featuring my photo on the cover and an article with
@CharissaB
proposing 2 new genera of mycoparasites associated with the zombie-ant fungus Ophiocordyceps camponoti-floridani 🍄 🧟♂️ 🦠
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Nice to see my photo circulating everywhere on Twitter and Instagram without credits
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Harvestman infected by an unknown species of entomopathogenic fungi. The orange structures covering the host are perithecia from which spores will be actively discharged upon maturity
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@FernandoHoliday
Vc é trouxa assim mesmo ou ta só zoando a humilhação que o Bolsonaro ta passando?
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A coral fungus I found this morning in Maine. Not the best for entomopathogens at this time of the year, but lots of mushrooms and litter/soil/wood fungi…
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Beautiful "light-bulb" fungus, Ophiocordyceps buquetii, infecting a Polyrhachis found dead biting onto low epiphytes in Ghana. An African Zombie lineage. Soon in Mycologia
@MSAFungi
🇬🇭
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@Biakicis
Bolsonarismo é sinônimo de bandidagem, de disseminação de mentiras pra insuflar seguidores, da exploração da boa-fé das pessoas, de corrupção, de bandidagem barata. Golpismo. Derrotar o Bolsonarismo (e não a direita) é um dever de qualquer pessoa decente.
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Usually I only post my own pictures, but man, look at this FABULOUS Ophiocordyceps on a Camptotonus cricket! Photos by Tim Kelley.
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@ItaloPetraglia
Sim. Generalizar e colocar TODOS os filmes brasileiros no mesmo balaio e dizer que são TODOS uma merda é bem revelador.
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Hey entomology folks!
Is anyone able to identify this absolutely beautiful weevil infected by Ophiocordyceps curculionum s.l.?
Collected in Honduras by
@dhaelewa
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Our new paper is out! The most comprehensive review "Disentangling the Taxonomy, Systematics, and Life History of the Spider-Parasitic Fungus Gibellula
(Cordycipitaceae, Hypocreales)".
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Check it out! My last trip to the cloud forest of Southern Brazil hunting Cordyceps fungi at the São Joaquim National Park with
@ElisandroRicar1
With only 8% of Brazil’s original Atlantic Forest still in existence, protecting what remains is incredibly important for our planet. Take a trip to São Joaquim National Park with Dr. João Araújo (
@joaofungo
), Assistant Curator of Mycology at NYBG.
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It's out! My last paper with
@u_matsuura
describes a beautiful new species of Ophiocordyceps on social cockroaches in Japan and provide insights into the evolution of Blattodea-associated fungal parasites. Happy to start combining Art&Sci.
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Gibellula fungi often builds a tower of spore-producing structures (conidiophores) that erupts from the spider bodies, spreading spores along the forest aiming to land on a suitable host.
What a beautiful work these architects of the forest can build.
🍄🕷️🍄
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That's Hyperdermium showering spores.A fungal parasite of hemipterans and plants.They use the insect body as a gateway into the plant tissue and grow hundreds of times bigger than its insect host, evidencing its dependence to the plant.
Brazilian Amazon 5PM-Feb2019 (Photos below)
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A single leaf can be a fascinating ecosystem. Here we see examples of hypocrealean fungi like hypocrelloids (yellow and orange) and Conoideocrella (second photo, the spiky one) infecting scale insects. Note the abundance of scales in the first photo, a feast for parasitic fungi.
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Today was to visit dad’s workplace
@NYBG
. She loved the parasitized insects and the microscopes: “wow, this is cool!” - priceless. 🍄🪲🐞🐜🍄
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Our last paper is out!The volume 2 of our series on Zombie-ant fungi across continents by myself,
@DH_PlantVillage
and Harry Evans. We have also honored
@CorrieMoreau
and named a species after her!Check it out!
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Tolypocladium capitatum group, collected today at Catskills- NY. Very intriguing biology these mycoparasites have. In Japan some species within this genus also infect cicada nymphs, which is ecologically similar in many aspects with the deer truffles their North American cousins
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Those are unusual spiraling Ophiocordyceps that erupts from spiders, attached on the underside of leaves. It was commonly found in the Great Smoky Mountains Natioanl Park during our surveys on 07/23. This group (aka "arachnophilous hymenostilboids") has been recorded just a few
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A beuatiful Ophiocordyceps albacongiuae, a unique species of
#zombieant
I've described from Colombian forests few years ago. It also featured
@netflix
documentary
@ourplanet
.
I hope to come back to the forests soon. Getting (actually) sick of home-office, computer, isolation...
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Ophiocordyceps species,still undescribed,infecting Carolina leaf-roller Camptotonus carolinensis.A common species broadly distributed in the US.If you have a specimen and would like to contribute with the description of this species, please send it our way! Let's show the power
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@antoniotabet
É mto dificil “avaliar” qq intervenção ou obra artística sem ter o menor background sobre o que se trata. Certamente no museu onde foi apresentado deveria ter algo pelo menos pra direcionar o pensamento das pessoas.
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In my natural habitat, hunting for beautifully infected insects
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Did you know there are recently discovered fungi that castrate and kill Cordyceps fungi!? It would be nice to see them in
#TheLastOfUsHBO
. Maybe as the cure for the spread of Cordyceps...
Here is the study where we published these findings. Check it out!
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I am happy to share our new paper is out in Persoonia! Here, myself,
@CharissaB
et al. describe 2 new genera infecting a zombie-ant fungus in Southern USA. We are just unfolding a new level of biodiversity discoveries based on Cordyceps-like fungi!
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Some fungi are pure art. Beautiful Gibellula on a tiny spider from Ethiopian forests.
Kaffa, Ethiopia 2018
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Just came across this photo and realized (for the 1000th time) how amazingly diverse a single day of Cordyceps collections in the Brazilian Amazon looks like...
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Dear Twitter friends,
I'm making available a small batch of t-shirts featuring amazing Cordyceps fungi, using my photos I took along my field expeditions
This one features a Torrubielloid fungus infecting a harvestman, Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil (12/2023)
DM if interested!
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Dear ArachnoTwitter,
Could anybody identify this spider please? Wiggins, Mississippi collected 2 days ago.
It seems to serve as a host for an interesting fungal pathogen, Purpureocillium aff. atypicola.
Thank you!
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Ophiocordyceps paltothyrei infects Paltothyreus tarsatus, a huge ant that climbs up to vertical stem of saplings to die biting attached onto it, when infected. Commonly found, I collected 325 of those beauties in just 1h of survey in the Bunso Arboretum, Koforidua, Ghana 🇬🇭 2015
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@UOLNoticias
Claro, da mesma fonte da “bomba” sobre as urnas, ou de que a vacina com chip Chinês, ou Terra-plana… 😂
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Paper accepted! New species of Zombie-ants coming out soon, featuring a novel lineage of zombie-Ponerines from Amazon 🇧🇷 and Ghana 🇬🇭 Soon in Mycologia special issue on animal-associated fungi
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Spent the day working on photographing and preparing slides for microscopy for some cool Akanthomyces fungi infecting moths. Hopefully a very cool paper on moth parasites coming out in a few months.
I was missing that type of day….
#taxonomy
#systematics
#cordyceps
#THeLastofUs
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Proud to say my office is now fully functional! Just need some more plants and Fungi decor 🔬 🍄 🪴
@NYBG
@zeiss_micro
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@FernandoHoliday
Aproveite e proíba tb crianças em faróis por todo Brasil. Acho incrível o tipo de prioridade que a direita tem. É surreal.
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Harvestmen are rarely found infected by entomopathogenic fungi,contrasting with their spider cousins that are common victims of fungal infections.These flask-shaped structures are fungal perithecia,which produce the spores that are actively dispersed through the forest
Japan 2020
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"Cordyceps fungi" infect a variety of insects, including heavily-armored beetles. Imagine drilling through this thick exoeskeleton to infect the host body... Wonders of evolution!
Nigelia sp., Brazil 12/2022
#cordyceps
#TheLastOfUsHBO
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The Ophiocordyceps-killer fungus, Niveomyces.
Open access study in Persoonia 12/2022=>
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A spider-killer fungus, Gibellula sp., displaying its beautiful sexual morph, previously called Torrubiella. The spiky dark-brown structures are perithecia that activelly shoot spores in the air aiming to land on another suitable spider host.
Great Smokey Mountains region
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A piece of history. Got to see the very ORIGINAL piece of Fleming’s Penicillium notatum strain at
@CABI_News
@CABI_Microbe
. Amazing!
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Producing and transmitting spores into the next suitable host is one of the hallmarks of parasitic fungal lineages. Here are 4 examples of these important structures and how diverse they can be. 1. Purpureocillium; 2-3. Nigelia and 4. Cordyceps.
Fungi are Pure Art 🍄
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@MichelVitor1
@roxmo
Esse vive de meia dúzia de sucessos dos 80 até hj… ta longe de ser alguém capaz de compor algo contra o sistema. Ele aplaudiu o sistema nos ultimos 4 anos!
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Cocoons are often enough to protect insect larvae from external threats and predation, but not so efficient against Cordyceps infections. Here we see two fruiting bodies erupting from a mummified larva. On the left is how we found it buried in soil and on the right is after
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Check it out, my last interview for
@NatGeo
on the "zombie fungi".
Cordyceps is a real fungus—but is it dangerous?
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@KimKataguiri
Isso é fruto da Direita brasileira insistir em importar o que ha de mais nefasto da cultura Norte-Americana
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Hi all,
After 3 years I defended my PhD, I have decided that I should finally start applying for jobs. I work with Organismal Biology of arthropod-associated fungi and their mycoparasites. So, if you know about a position available out there, please let me know! RT please.
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Akanthomyces infecting adult moths are among my favorite entomopathogenic fungi. Wonder why...
Brazilian Central Amazon 2019
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My last study woth
@ZombieAntGuy
on “zombie-ant” fungi across continents is out! Have a look at these beautiful and intriguing creatures!
#cordyceps
#ophiocordyceps
#ants
#phylogeny
#taxonomy
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Fungus among us. Today I found another cool fungus inside
@NYBG
facilities! I spotted a ladybug that seemed to have something attached to it. Brought it to the lab and, voilà!
A cool Laboulbeniaceous fungus under our noses!
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Ophiocordyceps dipterigena s.l. on a headless fly. Another example of an underexplored complex of entomopathogenic species
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@nikolas_dm
Perguntou isso pela vergonha pública que esse ai faz o pai passar diariamente, tudo pra proteger o inelegível. A pergunta é bastante pertinente.
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A beautifully mature Ophiocordyceps unilateralis s.l. from Parque Nacional de São Joaquim - SC, Southern Brazil 12/2022. The fruiting body is ready to shoot over 300,000 spores along its life, creating a mine field below the infected carcass. 🧟♂️🍄
#TheLastOfUs
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Urticant hairs and setae could be very useful against predators and other threats, but useless against the Cordyceps fungi
#TheLastOfUs
#cordyceps
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