Fungal Parasites of Bdelloid Rotifers: A New Phialophora

Mycologia ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 76 (6) ◽  
pp. 1107 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. L. Barron ◽  
E. Szijarto
Keyword(s):  
Bdelloid Rotifers ◽  
Fungal Parasites

Two new fungal parasites of bdelloid rotifers

1981 ◽  
Vol 59 (8) ◽  
pp. 1449-1455 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. L. Barron
Keyword(s):  
Bdelloid Rotifers ◽  
Rapid Injection ◽  
Fungal Parasites

Haptoglossa humicola (Oomycetes) and Tolypocladium trigonosporum (Hyphomycetes) are described as new endoparasites attacking rotifers, belonging to the genera Adineta and Philodina, in soil. In H. humicola the laterally biflagellate zoospores produce spherical cysts each of which then germinates to form a specialized injection cell. The host is attacked by means of rapid injection of a sporidium through the cuticle. Each sporidium produces a thallus inside the host which at maturity functions as a zoosporangium. In T. trigonosporum, after infection, a network of curved anastomosing fertile hyphae produces a loose shell around the encysted host. Conidia are not produced under water, but in air these fertile hyphae give rise to solitary or clustered phialides and triangulate conidia.

Fungal parasites of bdelloid rotifers: Diheterospora

1985 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. L. Barron
Keyword(s):  
Bdelloid Rotifers ◽  
Fungal Parasites ◽  
First Time

Descriptions and illustrations are given for 12 species of Diheterospora recovered from parasitized rotifers in Ontario. Four of these species have been previously described and eight are described for the first time.

Fungal parasites of rotifers: two new verticillate endoparasites with aerial conidiophores

1980 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 432-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. L. Barron
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Bdelloid Rotifers ◽  
Resting Spores ◽  
Fungal Parasites

Diheterospora rotiferorum and Diheterospora ovispora are described as new species endoparasitic on bdelloid rotifers belonging to Philodina and Adineta. In both species resting spores (aleuriospores) are produced underwater and disseminative spores (phialoconidia) are produced from aerial conidiophores. Verticillium reniformis and Acrostalagmus tagenophorus, also endoparasites of rotifers, are transferred to the genus Diheterospora.

Fungal Parasites of Bdelloid Rotifers: A New Phialophora

Mycologia ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 76 (6) ◽  
pp. 1107-1110 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. L. Barron ◽  
E. Szijarto
Keyword(s):  
Bdelloid Rotifers ◽  
Fungal Parasites

Anciently Asexual Bdelloid Rotifers Escape Lethal Fungal Parasites by Drying Up and Blowing Away

Science ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 327 (5965) ◽  
pp. 574-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. G. Wilson ◽  
P. W. Sherman
Keyword(s):  
Bdelloid Rotifers ◽  
Drying Up ◽  
Fungal Parasites

A subcuticular endoparasite impaling bdelloid rotifers using three-pronged spores

1981 ◽  
Vol 59 (7) ◽  
pp. 1207-1212 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. L. Barron ◽  
S. S. Tzean
Keyword(s):  
Bdelloid Rotifers ◽  
Mouth Region ◽  
Subcuticular Space ◽  
Infection Hypha

Triacutus subcuticularis is described as an endoparasite of bdelloid rotifers. The infection hypha does not establish in the visceral tissue but grows in the pseudocoel between the cuticle and the epidermis. In this location the thallus grows and divides repeatedly to produce numerous unicellular assimilative segments which pack the subcuticular space of the living host. After death, each hyphal segment produces one or several filiform extensions which bear solitary one-celled, three-pronged spores at the apex. Infection is initiated by the spore impaling the rotifers in the mouth region.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document