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Citation for Study 1735

About Citation title: "Taxonomy of an anamorphic xylariaceous fungus from a cultured-termite nest found together with Xylaria angulosa".
About This study was previously identified under the legacy study ID S1699 (Status: Published).

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Okane I., & Nakagiri A. 2007. Taxonomy of an anamorphic xylariaceous fungus from a cultured-termite nest found together with Xylaria angulosa. Mycoscience, 48: 240-249.

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  • Okane I.
  • Nakagiri A.

Abstract

Two xylariaceous fungi were isolated from a nest of a termite, Odontotermes formosanus, that was incubated in a laboratory after collecting from Iriomote Is., Okinawa Pref. in Japan. One of the two fungi was identified as Xylaria angulosa on the basis of the morphology of branched stroma produced on medium and tiny asci and ascospores having germination slit. Another fungus is an anamorphic fungus that produces up to 50 mm long synnemata from which dendritic conidiophores branch out. Unicellular conidia are holoblastically produced on a sympodially proliferating conidiogenous cell. Such morphological characters resemble to those of the genus Geniculosporium. However, its distinctive synnema formation and dendritic conidiophores do not assign the fungus to Geniculosporium or other known genera and warrant establishment of a new genus. Phylogenetic tree based on the ITS regions of rDNA shows that the fungus is nested in the cluster of the genus Nemania (Xylariaceae), whose species have mainly Geniculosporium-like anamorphs. We describe here the present anamorphic fungus as Geniculisynnema termiticola gen. et sp. nov., and discuss its phylogenetical and ecological relationships to Xylariaceous fungi, especially termiticolous species.

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