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Termitomyces sp. associated with the termite Macrotermes natalensis has a heterothallic mating system and multinucleate cells

Författare

  • Henrik Hjarvard de Fine Licht
  • A. Andersen
  • D.K. Aanen

Summary, in English

Fungi of the genus Termitomyces live in an obligate symbiosis with termites of the subfamily Macrotermitinae. Many species of Termitomyces frequently form fruit bodies, which develop from the fungus comb within the nest. In this study,

we determined the mating system of a species of Termitomyces associated with the South African termite Macrotermes natalensis. Termite nests were excavated and a Termitomyces sp. was isolated into pure culture from the asexual fruit

bodies (nodules) growing in the fungus gardens. For one strain, single basidiospore cultures were obtained from basidiomes growing from the fungus comb after incubation without termites. Using nuclear staining, we show that both

comb cultures and single spore cultures have multinucleate cells and that the majority of spores has a single nucleus.

However, DNA sequencing of the ITS region in the nuclear RNA gene revealed that the comb mycelium had two different ITS types that segregated in the single spore cultures, which consequently had only a single ITS type. These results unambiguously prove that the strain of Termitomyces studied here has a heterothallic mating system, with the fungus garden of the termite mound being in the heterokaryotic phase. This is the first time the mating system of a

Termitomyces species has been studied.

Publiceringsår

2005

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

314-318

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Mycological Research

Volym

109

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Cambridge University Press

Ämne

  • Biological Sciences

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0953-7562