Patrick J. Keeling is a mycologist in the Department of Botany at the University of British Columbia. He is notable for his publications on fungi including Microsporidia and the evolution of parasites. Divisions Chytridiomycota Zygomycota Glomeromycota Ascomycota Basidiomycota Yellow fungus For the fictional character, see Fungus the Bogeyman. ... Botany is the scientific study of plant life. ... The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a university located on Point Grey near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. ... Subclasses Dihaplophasea Haplophasea Microsporidia are parasites of animals, now considered to be extremely reduced fungi. ... Charles Darwin, father of the theory of evolution by natural selection. ... A parasite is an organism that lives in or on the living tissue of a host organism at the expense of it. ...