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In this map of fungi we learn everything we can about fungi in about 20 minutes. They are hugely underappreciated as they are an entire kingdom of life, as rich as plants and animals, and we use them so much in our day to day lives beyond eating their mushrooms. They are really important for medicine (antibiotics, statins and many more) and nearly all plants on Earth rely on fungi to live. Amazing stuff. I learned so much making this video!
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Writer, art, animation and edited by Dominic Walliman
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References
Penicillin fermentation By Matt Brown – Flickr, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index…
Penicillin mould By Teresa MarĂa LĂłpez – Own work, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index…
Glass phial of penicillin By https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/… https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/… Collection gallery (2018-03-29): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/… CC-BY-4.0, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index…
Fungal Highway https://www.life-science-alliance.org…
Therapy brain connections By G. Petri, P. Expert, F. Turkheimer, R. Carhart-Harris, D. Nutt, P. J. Hellyer and F. Vaccarino – https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2014.0873, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index…
Mycelium image By Christian Scheckhuber – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index…
Oomycete By (Reproduced courtesy of Matteo Garbelotto, UC Berkeley [A, D], and Edwin R. Florance, Lewis & Clark College [Portland, Oregon, United States] and the USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station in Albany, California [B, C].) – Nicholls H: Stopping the Rot. PLoS Biol 2/7/2004: e213. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pb…, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index…
Slime mould By Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas – https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/17…, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index…
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Fungi
01:19 Fungal Biology
05:43 Ecology
07:09 Mycorrhiza
08:37 Other Fungal Relationships
10:26 Zombie Ants
11:19 Fungi in Medicine
12:50 Bacterial Highways
13:37 Technology, Food and Poison
15:31 Psychotropics and Fermentation
16:55 Fungi on Us
18:01 Fungal Reproduction
18:51 Spores
19:57 Fungal Tree of Life
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