CiteULike CiteULike
Delicious Delicious
Connotea Connotea

Citation for Study 933

About Citation title: "Penicillium brocae, a new species associated with the coffee berry borer in Chiapas, Mexico.".
About This study was previously identified under the legacy study ID S811 (Status: Published).

Citation

Peterson S., Perez J., Vega F., & Infante F. 2003. Penicillium brocae, a new species associated with the coffee berry borer in Chiapas, Mexico. Mycologia, 95(1): 141-147.

Authors

  • Peterson S.
  • Perez J.
  • Vega F.
  • Infante F.

Abstract

Penicillium brocae is a new monoverticillate species isolated from coffee berry borers collected at coffee plantations in Mexico near Cacahoat?n, Chiapas, and from borers reared on artificial diets at ECOSUR laboratory facilities in Tapachula, Chiapas. Phenotypically, it is in Penicillium series Implicatum, but because it does not conform to known species we have described it as new. ITS and large subunit rDNA were sequenced and compared to determine the phylogenetic position of this species. It is most closely related to Penicillium adametzii. Penicillium brocae has only been found in association with the coffee berry borer and is one of several fungi that grow in coffee berry borer galleries. Penicillium brocae may provide the exogenous sterols necessary for the coffee berry borer's development and thus be mutualistically associated with the insect.

Keywords

broca; DNA sequences; fungi; internal transcribed spacer; ribosomal DNA; Scolytidae; Trichocomaceae

External links

About this resource

  • Canonical resource URI: http://purl.org/phylo/treebase/phylows/study/TB2:S933
  • Other versions: Download Reconstructed NEXUS File Nexus Download NeXML File NeXML
  • Show BibTeX reference
  • Show RIS reference