Urea regulates soil nematode population by enhancing the nematode-trapping ability of nematode-trapping fungi [PDF]
Scientific ReportsAbstractAs the most abundant animal in the soil, nematodes are directly or indirectly involved in almost all soil ecological processes. Studying soil nematode population regulation is essential to understanding soil ecological processes. This study found urea combines nematode-trapping fungi to regulate the population of soil nematodes.
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Genomic Mechanisms Accounting for the Adaptation to Parasitism in Nematode-Trapping Fungi [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2013 Orbiliomycetes is one of the earliest diverging branches of the filamentous ascomycetes. The class contains nematode-trapping fungi that form unique infection structures, called traps, to capture and kill free-living nematodes. The traps have evolved differently along several lineages and include adhesive traps (knobs, nets or branches) and ...
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Morphological and Phylogenetic Characterization of Five Novel Nematode-Trapping Fungi (Orbiliomycetes) from Yunnan, China [PDF]
Journal of Fungi, 2023 Nematode-trapping fungi are widely studied due to their unique morphological structure, survival strategy, and potential value in the biological control of harmful nematodes.
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Drechslerella daliensis and D. xiaguanensis (Orbiliales, Orbiliaceae), two new nematode-trapping fungi from Yunnan, China [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2022 Nematode-trapping fungi are a highly specialised group in fungi and are essential regulators of natural nematode populations. At present, more than 130 species have been discovered in Zygomycota (Zoopagaceae), Basidiomycota (Nematoctonus), and Ascomycota
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Microbiology Spectrum, 2017 ABSTRACT Nematode-trapping fungi are a unique and intriguing group of carnivorous microorganisms that can trap and digest nematodes by means of specialized trapping structures. They can develop diverse trapping devices, such as adhesive hyphae, adhesive knobs, adhesive networks, constricting rings, and nonconstricting rings. Nematode-trapping
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Expansion of Adhesion Genes Drives Pathogenic Adaptation of Nematode-Trapping Fungi [PDF]
iScience, 2020 Summary: Understanding how fungi interact with other organisms has significant medical, environmental, and agricultural implications. Nematode-trapping fungi (NTF) can switch to pathogens by producing various trapping devices to capture nematodes.
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Transcriptome analysis highlights the influence of temperature on hydrolase and traps in nematode-trapping fungi [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyPine wilt disease caused by Bursaphelenchus xylophilus poses a serious threat to the economic and ecological value of forestry. Nematode trapping fungi trap and kill nematodes using specialized trapping devices, which are highly efficient and non-toxic ...
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Nematode-Trapping Fungi Eavesdrop on Nematode Pheromones [PDF]
Current Biology, 2013 The recognition of molecular patterns associated with specific pathogens or food sources is fundamental to ecology and plays a major role in the evolution of predator-prey relationships. Recent studies showed that nematodes produce an evolutionarily highly conserved family of small molecules, the ascarosides, which serve essential functions in ...
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Proteomic insights into nematode-trapping fungi Arthrobotrys oligospora after their response to chitin [PDF]
Journal of Veterinary ResearchNematode-trapping fungi (NTFs) can produce various chitinases to degrade nematode body wall and eggshell chitin during predation. However, the regulatory mechanisms of their expression of chitinases still remain unclear.
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Bacteria can mobilize nematode-trapping fungi to kill nematodes [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2014 AbstractIn their natural habitat, bacteria are consumed by bacterivorous nematodes; however, they are not simply passive preys. Here we report a defensive mechanism used by certain bacteria to mobilize nematode-trapping fungi to kill nematodes. These bacteria release urea, which triggers a lifestyle switch in the fungus Arthrobotrys oligospora from ...
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