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1. Ophiocordyceps halabalaensis: a new species of Ophiocordyceps pathogenic to Camponotus gigas in Hala Bala Wildlife Sanctuary, Southern Thailand

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Luangsa-Ard, J. Jennifer, Ridkaew, Rungpet, Tasanathai, Kanoksri, Thanakitpipattana, Donnaya, and Hywel-Jones, Nigel

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*ASCOMYCETES, *WILDLIFE refuges, *PATHOGENIC fungi, *ANTS, *HYPOCREALES, *PHYLOGENY, *RECOMBINANT DNA
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Abstract: Several fungal pathogens of ants have been reported as members of the family Ophiocordycipitaceae in the order Hypocreales. Surveys in the south of Thailand have shown specimens showing characteristics that are morphologically similar to Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, a very common ant pathogen, by producing a lateral pad on one side of the stroma and producing whole ascospores. Phylogenetic analyses of the partial elongation factor tef1-α and the internal transcribed spacer regions ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 rDNA have shown that this is a distinct species from O. unilateralis. The morphological characters of Ophiocordyceps halabalaensis differs from O. unilateralis in the possession of bigger perithecia and ascospores, and molecular analyses have shown that this ant-specific fungus is sufficiently different from O. unilateralis, deserving the naming of a new species. Aspects of morphology, host association/host-specificity, and taxonomic position are discussed. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Published
2011
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2. Ophiocordyceps halabalaensis: a new species of Ophiocordyceps pathogenic to Camponotus gigas in Hala Bala Wildlife Sanctuary, Southern Thailand

Author

J. Jennifer Luangsa-ard, Donnaya Thanakitpipattana, Kanoksri Tasanathai, Rungpet Ridkaew, and Nigel L. Hywel-Jones

Subjects
Camponotus gigas, Ophiocordycipitaceae, Fungal protein, biology, Ants, Hypocreales, Molecular Sequence Data, fungi, Fungal genetics, Ophiocordyceps, Spores, Fungal, Thailand, biology.organism_classification, Fungal Proteins, Infectious Diseases, Botany, Genetics, Animals, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, Internal transcribed spacer, DNA, Fungal, Phylogeny, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Abstract

Several fungal pathogens of ants have been reported as members of the family Ophiocordycipitaceae in the order Hypocreales. Surveys in the south of Thailand have shown specimens showing characteristics that are morphologically similar to Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, a very common ant pathogen, by producing a lateral pad on one side of the stroma and producing whole ascospores. Phylogenetic analyses of the partial elongation factor tef1-α and the internal transcribed spacer regions ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 rDNA have shown that this is a distinct species from O. unilateralis. The morphological characters of Ophiocordyceps halabalaensis differs from O. unilateralis in the possession of bigger perithecia and ascospores, and molecular analyses have shown that this ant-specific fungus is sufficiently different from O. unilateralis, deserving the naming of a new species. Aspects of morphology, host association/host-specificity, and taxonomic position are discussed.

Published
2011

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