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Tropical carpenter ants (Camponotus leonardi) are turned into zombie ants when infected by the parasitic fungus (Ophiocordyceps unilateralis). Infected ants become erratic and zombie-like, and are manipulated by the fungus into dying at a spot that provides optimal conditions for fungal reproduction. New research looks at altered behavior patterns in zombie ants in Thailand and shows how the fungus manipulates ant behavior.
The fungus, which causes the disease known as corn smut, produces about 25 billion spores per average-sized ear of infected corn. The fungus causing stem rust of wheat generates about 10 billion spores from an acre of moderately diseased plants (Hudler 1998). The wood decay fungus Ganoderma applanatum, has been estimated to produce basidiospores at the rate of 350,000 per second.