The genus Entomophthora: bringing the insect destroyers into the twenty-first century [PDF]
IMA Fungus, 2021 The fungal genus Entomophthora consists of highly host-specific pathogens that cause deadly epizootics in their various insect hosts. The most well-known among these is the “zombie fly” fungus E. muscae, which, like other Entomophthora species, elicits a
Carolyn Elya, Henrik H De Fine Licht
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Signatures of transposon-mediated genome inflation, host specialization, and photoentrainment in Entomophthora muscae and allied entomophthoralean fungi [PDF]
eLife, 2023 Despite over a century of observations, the obligate insect parasites within the order Entomophthorales remain poorly characterized at the genetic level. In this manuscript, we present a genome for a laboratory-tractable Entomophthora muscae isolate that
Jason E Stajich +8 more
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Entomophthorales fungus: Entomophthora, Zoophthora and Conidiobolus
Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca, 1993 The paper shows mushroom species of the Entomophthoraceae family known as ";auxiliaries"; of plants. Their classification from the systematic point of view in genera, subgenera and species is a matter of controversy. Morphological and ecological problems
Doina STANA
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Mycoviruses in Entomopathogenic Fungi [PDF]
VirusesMycoviruses are widely distributed among different groups of filamentous fungi. An awareness of infections caused by mycoviruses was highlighted in the 1980s and 1990s, when the impact of these agents on phenotypes of agriculturally and medically ...
Matheus da Silva Camargo +10 more
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Rearing zombie flies: Laboratory culturing of the behaviourally manipulating fungal pathogen Entomophthora muscae [PDF]
MethodsXInsect pathogenic fungi (IPF) and insects have ubiquitous interactions in nature. The extent of these interkingdom host-pathogen interactions are both complex and diverse. Some IPF, notably of the order Entomophthorales, manipulate their species-specific
Sam Edwards, Henrik H. De Fine Licht
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Drosophila host defense mechanisms against filamentous fungal pathogens with diverse lifestyles. [PDF]
PLoS PathogensEntomopathogenic fungi serve as powerful regulators of insect populations in nature. However, how immune effectors combat fungal pathogens remains incompletely understood.
Guiqing Liu +5 more
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A Mycovirus Representing a Novel Lineage and a Mitovirus of Botrytis cinerea Co-Infect a Basidiomycetous Fungus, Schizophyllum commune [PDF]
VirusesStrain IBc-114 was isolated from a gray mold lesion and was identified as the fungus Schizophyllum commune. In this strain, two mycoviruses, Schizophyllum commune RNA virus 1 (ScRV1, C_AA053475.1) and Botrytis cinerea mitovirus 9 strain IBc-114 (BcMV9 ...
Jie Duan +10 more
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Clockwork intruders: Do parasites manipulate their hostsʼ circadian rhythms? [PDF]
Current Research in Parasitology and Vector-Borne DiseasesMost organisms have developed circadian clocks to adapt to 24-hour cycles in the environment. These clocks have become crucial for modulating and synchronizing complex behavioral and biological processes.
Sebastián Boy-Waxman +2 more
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A fungal parasite selects against body size but not fluctuating asymmetry in Swiss subalpine yellow dung flies [PDF]
Alpine Entomology, 2021 Evidence for selective disadvantages of large body size remains scarce in general. Previous studies of the yellow dung fly Scathophaga stercoraria have demonstrated strong positive sexual and fecundity selection on male and female size. Nevertheless, the
Wolf U. Blanckenhorn
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Amended description and new combination for Entomophthora nebriae Raunkiaer, (1893), a little known entomopathogenic fungus attacking the ground beetle Nebria brevicollis (Fabricius, 1792) [PDF]
Alpine Entomology, 2018 A fungus attacking the ground beetle Nebria brevicollis (Fabricius, 1792) (Coleoptera, Carabidae) was collected in north-western Germany. The fungus was identical to Entomophthora nebriae Raunkiaer, 1893 (Entomophthoromycotina, Entomophthoraceae ...
Siegfried Keller, Thorben Hülsewig
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