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Extracting Protoplasts from Filamentous Fungi Using Extralyse, An Enzyme Used in the Wine Industry

Current Protocols, Volume 5, Issue 3, March 2025.
Abstract The ability to extract protoplasts has contributed significantly to the study of fungi and plants. Protoplasts have historically been used to determine chromosome number via pulsed‐field electrophoresis and for the functional characterization of genes via protoplast transformation.
Andi Wilson, Alida van Dijk, Bianke Marx, Deanne du Plessis, Grant Terblanche, Simoné Bornman, P. Markus Wilken, Tuan A. Duong, Henrik H. De Fine Licht, Brenda D. Wingfield   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

New species of Ophiostomatales from Scolytinae and Platypodinae beetles in the Cape Floristic Region, including the discovery of the sexual state of Raffaelea [PDF]

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 2015
Olea capensis and Rapanea melanophloeos are important canopy trees in South African Afromontane forests. Dying or recently dead individuals of these trees are often infested by Scolytinae and Platypodinae (Curculionidae) beetles. Fungi were isolated from the surfaces of beetles emerging from wood samples and their galleries.
Musvuugwa, Tendai, De Beer, Z. Wilhelm, Duong, Tuan A., Dreyer, Leanne Laurette, Oberlander, Kenneth C., Roets, Francois   +5 more
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Effect of the host plant on the life history, behaviour and fungal community of a fungus‐farming ambrosia beetle

Ecological Entomology, Volume 49, Issue 5, Page 705-718, October 2024.
We analysed the life history, behaviour and symbionts of Xyleborinus saxesenii in different host trees. The life history traits, behaviour and nutritional symbionts were not impacted by the host tree, but other fungal symbionts were. Our results show that wood‐dwelling insects do not always adapt to the locally abundant plants.
Antoine Melet, Peter H. W. Biedermann
wiley   +1 more source

Sporothrix and Sporotrichosis: A South African Perspective on a Growing Global Health Threat

Mycoses, Volume 67, Issue 10, October 2024.
ABSTRACT Sporotrichosis is a disease that arises from a fungal infection caused by members of the Ascomycete genus Sporothrix. The disease has a unique history in South Africa, due to an association with gold mines, where large numbers of mine workers were infected in the 1930s and 1940s.
Taygen Fuchs, Cobus M. Visagie, Brenda D. Wingfield, Michael J. Wingfield   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Root nodules of red alder (Alnus rubra) and Sitka alder (Alnus viridis ssp. sinuata) are inhabited by taxonomically diverse cultivable microbial endophytes

MicrobiologyOpen, Volume 13, Issue 3, June 2024.
Plants that host nitrogen‐fixing symbionts in their root nodules play a significant role in both ecology and economy. However, the secondary members of these root nodule microbiomes have not been thoroughly studied. Our field survey conducted on Mount St.
Robyn Dove, Emily R. Wolfe, Nathan U. Stewart, Abigail Coleman, Sara Herrejon Chavez, Daniel J. Ballhorn   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unraveling the multifaceted effects of climatic factors on mountain pine beetle and its interaction with fungal symbionts

Global Change Biology, Volume 30, Issue 3, March 2024.
Mountain pine beetles threaten North American pine forests by causing widespread tree mortality through mass aggregation on host trees. The current study demonstrates exposed beetle–fungal symbiont pairs to manipulated CO2, O3 and humidity levels, finding that lower humidity favoured beetle reproduction and fungal growth, while elevated CO2 accelerated
Rashaduz Zaman, Aftab Shah, Ateeq Shah, Aziz Ullah, Guncha Ishangulyyeva, Nadir Erbilgin   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genetic diversity and molecular evolution of 3-carboxymuconate cyclase (Gp60–70), the major antigen in pathogenic Sporothrix species

Mycology
Sporotrichosis, a neglected tropical disease caused by Sporothrix species, is a growing concern, particularly due to the emergence of highly virulent, cat-transmitted S. brasiliensis.
Jamile Ambrósio de Carvalho, Thiago Costa Machado, Alexandre Augusto Sasaki, Fabian Glaser, Primavera Alvarado, Alexandro Bonifaz, Sarah Santos Gonçalves, Isabella Dib Gremião, Sandro Antonio Pereira, Olga Fischman Gompertz, Zoilo Pires de Camargo, Anderson Messias Rodrigues   +11 more
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Seasonal Succession of Fungi Associated with Ips typographus Beetles and Their Phoretic Mites in an Outbreak Region of Finland.

PLoS ONE, 2016
The ophiostomatoid fungi (Microascales and Ophiostomatales, Ascomycota) are common associates of Ips typographus, and include tree pathogens and species responsible for blue-stain of timber. Fungal assemblages associated with I.
Riikka Linnakoski, Saila Mahilainen, Alison Harrington, Henri Vanhanen, Miikka Eriksson, Lauri Mehtätalo, Ari Pappinen, Michael J Wingfield   +7 more
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Introduction to special issue: Advancing disease ecology through eDNA monitoring of infectious agents

Environmental DNA, Volume 6, Issue 1, January–February 2024.
AbstractThis special issue focuses on the applications of environmental DNA (eDNA) sequencing for the detection and monitoring of disease‐causing agents, including viruses, bacteria, protozoans, myxozoans, fungi, trematodes, and arthropods. We explore the impact of eDNA technologies, such as metabarcoding and qPCR, in understanding the dynamics of ...
Jasmine Childress, Christina L. Faust, Kristy Deiner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Natural deadwood hosts more diverse pioneering wood‐inhabiting fungal communities than restored deadwood

Restoration Ecology, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2024.
Deadwood can be recreated as a forest restoration measure to increase the amount of deadwood and assist deadwood‐dependent biodiversity. While deadwood restoration is known to have an overall positive effect on associated species in the long term, it remains poorly understood how and when wood‐inhabiting organisms colonize different kinds of deadwood ...
Sonja Saine, Reijo Penttilä, Brendan Furneaux, Norman Monkhouse, Evgeny V. Zakharov, Otso Ovaskainen, Nerea Abrego   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source