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Fantastic fungi

We asked Neil Gow, chair of microbiology at the University of Aberdeen, UK, and president of the Microbiology Society, where his fascination with fungi started, what his life as a mycologist is like, and what the future holds.

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Burdett, H. Fantastic fungi. Nat Microbiol 1, 16096 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.96

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