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Close-up microscope image of connected algae cells. Each cell has a dark spot (nucleus) and circular structures. The cells are separated by thin walls and surrounded by a thick outer layer. A photograph showing a path into a forest against a blue sky. A vertical tree stump outdoors with about a dozen shiitake mushrooms sprouting from its surface. A burned tree stump, as the photo on the cover of nature microbiology. A photograph of a stream of diatoms underneath Arctic sea ice. Photograph of 41 fungal isolates representative of the A. thaliana root mycobiome (© S. Hacquard / MPIPZ) Scientists sample phytoplankton communities, utilising a ‘mummy chair.’ Shown here, they're sampling a brown mat of aggregated phytoplankton. (Katrin Schmidt) The anaerobic fungus Anaeroromyces robustus growing on reed canary grass. (Vaithiyalingam Shutthanandan, PNNL/EMSL) Unicellular algae in the Chlorella genus, magnified 1300x. (Andrei Savitsky) Support Vector Machine (SVM)-based prediction of lifestyle based on 6 gene clusters showed a >95 % accuracy in correctly predicting plant pathogens (blue) vs saprobes (green). (From Haridas S et al. Studies in Mycology, 2020) The filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa eating plant biomass. (Vincent Wu)

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