Fungi associated with invertebrates

2/20/2007

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Fungi associated with invertebrates

Outline - March 21

Both ants (Hymenoptera) and termites (Isoptera) garden fungi

Attine ants are the #1 agricultural pest in tropical Americas

The nests of Atta species may cover 10 square meters and contain millions of ants!

Other fungal-invertebrate associations

George Barron, University of Guelph, Canada

A fungal-feeding nematode

Nematode-destroying “fungi”

Predators and Parasitoids

Drechmeria coniospora (Clavicipitaceae)

Harposporium (Clavicipitaceae, 15 species)

Verticillium (Clavicipitaceae, 9 species accepted by Gams 1988)

Orbilia (Inoperculate Discomycetes)

Hohenbuehelia, the sexual state of Nematoctonus

Rhopalomyces (Helicocephalidaceae)

Meristacrum (Meristacraceae)

Stylopage (Zoopagaceae)

Chytridiomycota

Author: Greg Thorn

Email: aday@uwo.ca

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