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PLoS ONE 7(10): e48406. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.\u003ca href='http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0048406' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'\u003e0048406\u003c/a\u003e Humongous fungus Schmitt, C. and Tatum, M. 2008. The Malheur National Forest: Location of the World's Largest Living Organism [The Humongous \u003ca href='http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fsbdev3_033146.pdf' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'\u003eFungus]\u003c/a\u003e Casselman, A. Oct. 4 2007. Strange but True: The Largest Organism on Earth Is a Fungus. Scientific \u003ca href='http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-largest-organism-is-fungus' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'\u003eAmerican.\u003c/a\u003e Ferguson, BA. et al. 2003. Coarse-scale population structure of pathogenic Armillaria species in a mixed-conifer forest in the Blue Mountains of northeast Oregon. 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