Ascosphaera
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| A) habitat. Phragmites reeds and female Chelostoma florisomne returning with pollen for her brood. B) fecal pellet of C. florisomne larva covered with spore cysts; pale spore balls are visible through the transparent spore cyst wall. C) close-up of spore cyst showing spore balls and smooth, unornamented spore cyst wall. D) spore balls. E) bacilliform ascospores. Scale bars: B = 200 µm, C = 50 µm, C = 10 µm, D = 15 µm, E = 10 µm. | |
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| Kingdom: | Fungi |
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| Genus: | Ascosphaera L.S.Olive & Spiltoir (1955)
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| Type species | |
| Ascosphaera apis (Maasen ex Claussen) L.S.Olive & Spiltoir (1955)
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Pericystis Betts (1912)[1] | |
Ascosphaera is a
ascospores of the fungus are produced within a unique structure, the spore cyst, or sporocyst.[4]
Species
- A. acerosa
- A. aggregata
- A. apis
- A. asterophora
- A. atra
- A. callicarpa[5]
- A. celerrima
- A. cinnamomea
- A. duoformis
- A. fimicola
- A. flava
- A. fusiformis
- A. larvis
- A. major
- A. naganensis
- A. osmophila
- A. parasitica
- A. pollenicola
- A. proliperda
- A. scaccaria
- A. solina
- A. subcuticularis
- A. tenax
- A. torchioi
- A. variegata
- A. verrucosa
- A. xerophila
References
- .
- JSTOR 3755414.
- ISBN 978-1-4020-6242-1.
- S2CID 26872248
- PMID 24086280.
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