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Fungi

"Fungi" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A kingdom of eukaryotic, heterotrophic organisms that live parasitically as saprobes, including MUSHROOMS; YEASTS; smuts, molds, etc. They reproduce either sexually or asexually, and have life cycles that range from simple to complex. Filamentous fungi, commonly known as molds, refer to those that grow as multicellular colonies.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Fungi" by people in this website by year, and whether "Fungi" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 52 publications over 22 distinct years, with a maximum of 7 publications in 2019
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