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Three new species of Rotiferophthora attacking bdelloid rotifers in Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1998

S. L. GLOCKLING
S. L. GLOCKLING
Affiliation:
Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), PO Box 16, Tsukuba Norin Kenkyu Danchi-Nai, Ibaraki 305, Japan Present address: Department of Biological and Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Biological Sciences, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, U.K.
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Abstract

Three new species of Rotiferophthora (R. minutispora, R. amamiensis and R. lacrima) were isolated from samples of soil, rabbit dung and farmland waste in Japan. All species infected bdelloid rotifers and produced dictyochlamydospores in addition to conidia, but their modes of conidiogenesis differed. R. minutispora had small spherical conidia and long tapered conidiogenous cells which formed in verticils around the conidiophores; R. amamiensis had ovoid conidia produced from flask-shaped conidiogenous cells and aphanophialides, and R. lacrima produced long tear-shaped conidia enveloped in a mucoid sheath from short conidiogenous cells produced in a Drechmeria-like formation. A summary table of all known species of Rotiferophthora is shown.

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Research Article
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Mycological Research , Volume 102 , Issue 9 , September 1998 , pp. 1142 - 1148
Copyright
The British Mycological Society 1998

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