Natural diversity in the predatory behavior facilitates the establishment of a robust model strain for nematode-trapping fungi. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2020 Significance Nematode-trapping fungi (NTF) are carnivorous microbes that hold potential to be used as biological control agents due to their ability to consume nematodes.
Yang CT +11 more
europepmc +4 more sources
Sampling methods affect Nematode-Trapping Fungi biodiversity patterns across an elevational gradient. [PDF]
BMC Microbiol, 2020 Understanding the patterns of species richness across elevational gradients is a key concept for contemporary research in ecology and evolution, and critical to understanding large-scale trends in biodiversity, global change and conservation.
Deng W +6 more
europepmc +6 more sources
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.
Tejashwari Meerupati +5 more
doaj +8 more sources
Nematode-Trapping Fungi. [PDF]
Microbiol Spectr, 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
Jiang X, Xiang M, Liu X.
europepmc +4 more sources
Uncovering the biogeographic pattern of the widespread nematode-trapping fungi Arthrobotrys oligospora: watershed is the key. [PDF]
Front Microbiol, 2023 Studies of biogeographic patterns of fungi have long been behind those of plants and animals. The presence of worldwide species, the lack of systematic sampling design and adequate sampling effort, and the lack of research units are responsible for this ...
Deng W +6 more
europepmc +2 more sources
Analysis of Nuclear Dynamics in Nematode-Trapping Fungi Based on Fluorescent Protein Labeling. [PDF]
J Fungi (Basel), 2023 Nematophagous fungi constitute a category of fungi that exhibit parasitic behavior by capturing, colonizing, and poisoning nematodes, which are critical factors in controlling nematode populations in nature, and provide important research materials for ...
Zhou L, He Z, Zhang K, Wang X.
europepmc +2 more sources
New insights into the evolution of subtilisin-like serine protease genes in Pezizomycotina [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2010 Background Subtilisin-like serine proteases play an important role in pathogenic fungi during the penetration and colonization of their hosts. In this study, we perform an evolutionary analysis of the subtilisin-like serine protease genes of subphylum ...
Zhang Ying +9 more
doaj +3 more sources
Genomic and Transcriptomic Analyses Revealed DdSTE2 Play a Role in Constricting Ring Formation in the Nematode-Trapping Fungi Drechslerella dactyloides. [PDF]
MicroorganismsThe carnivorous fungus Drechslerella dactyloides can form constricting rings through hyphal specialization to capture nematodes. The formation of constricting rings is a prerequisite for capturing nematodes and a characteristic of entering the ...
Wu CL +7 more
europepmc +2 more sources
Nematode-Trapping Fungi Showed Different Predacity among Nematode Species [PDF]
Research in Plant Disease, 2019 Nematode-trapping fungi develop trap and consume nematodes are an important part of the subsoil ecosystem and they share a special predator-prey relationship.
Heonil Kang +4 more
doaj +2 more sources
Phylogenetics and evolution of nematode-trapping fungi (Orbiliales) estimated from nuclear and protein coding genes [PDF]
Mycologia, 2005 The systematic classification of nematode-trapping fungi is redefined based on phylogenies inferred from sequence analyses of 28S rDNA, 5.8S rDNA and ß-tubulin genes.
Cai, L +5 more
core +3 more sources