Learn about this specialist fungus through an evolutionary lens. Plants in the family Juglandaceae shifted their dispersal mechanism in the face of the widespread dinosaur extinction event. Adaptive fungi took advantage of these new resources, and never looked back.
Read moreMycena crocea; the success of the specialist walnut mycena after the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs
Mycena crocea decomposing a walnut. Photo by Lisa Kimmerling.