fungi

Our body's own human cells are outnumbered by the bacteria, fungi and others that live inside us - known as the microbiome.

But prosecutors argue Ms Patterson put poisonous fungi into their food in a carefully crafted plot to kill them.

Pointing to earlier evidence from a fungi expert who said the mushrooms in the images were "highly consistent" with death caps, Dr Rogers alleged Ms Patterson had knowingly foraged them days before.

Researchers at University College London and the Sanger Institute investigated the earliest stages in our body's colonisation by bacteria, fungi and more.

An Australian woman who cooked a toxic mushroom meal has told her murder trial she has long been a mushroom lover, but more recently developed a taste for wild fungi varieties that have "more flavour".