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Laboulbeniomycetes: Intimate Fungal Associates of Arthropods
- Source :
- Annual Review of Entomology. 66:257-276
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Annual Reviews, 2021.
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Abstract
- Arthropod–fungus interactions involving the Laboulbeniomycetes have been pondered for several hundred years. Early studies of Laboulbeniomycetes faced several uncertainties. Were they parasitic worms, red algal relatives, or fungi? If they were fungi, to which group did they belong? What was the nature of their interactions with their arthropod hosts? The historical misperceptions resulted from the extraordinary morphological features of these oddly constructed ectoparasitic fungi. More recently, molecular phylogenetic studies, in combination with a better understanding of life histories, have clearly placed these fungi among filamentous Ascomycota (subphylum Pezizomycotina). Species discovery and research on the classification of the group continue today as arthropods, and especially insects, are routinely collected and examined for the presence of Laboulbeniomycetes. Newly armed with molecular methods, mycologists are poisedto use Laboulbeniomycetes–insect associations as models for the study of a variety of basic evolutionary and ecological questions involving host–parasite relationships, modes of nutrient intake, population biology, host specificity, biological control, and invasion biology. Collaboration between mycologists and entomologists is essential to successfully advance knowledge of Laboulbeniomycetes and their intimate association with their hosts.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine
Laboulbeniales
Biodiversity
Mycology
Population biology
Hymenoptera
Biology
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Host-Parasite Interactions
03 medical and health sciences
Ascomycota
Genus
Animals
Arthropods
Phylogeny
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
fungi
Laboulbeniomycetes
030108 mycology & parasitology
biology.organism_classification
Evolutionary biology
Insect Science
Arthropod
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15454487 and 00664170
- Volume :
- 66
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Annual Review of Entomology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....848a284027a7e75219239bcc3e62691f