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A) habitat. Phragmites reeds and female Chelostoma florisomne returning with pollen for her brood. B) fecal pellet of C. florisomne larva covered with spore cysts; pale spore balls are visible through the transparent spore cyst wall. C) close-up of spore cyst showing spore balls and smooth, unornamented spore cyst wall. D) spore balls. E) bacilliform ascospores. Scale bars: B = 200 µm, C = 50 µm, C = 10 µm, D = 15 µm, E = 10 µm. | |
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Genus: | Ascosphaera L.S.Olive & Spiltoir (1955)
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Ascosphaera apis (Maasen ex Claussen) L.S.Olive & Spiltoir (1955)
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Pericystis Betts (1912) [1] |
Ascosphaera is a genus of fungi in the family Ascosphaeraceae. It was described in 1955 by mycologists Charles F. Spiltoir and Lindsay S. Olive. [2] Members of the genus are insect pathogens. The type species, A. apis, causes chalkbrood disease in honey bees. [3] The reproductive ascospores of the fungus are produced within a unique structure, the spore cyst, or sporocyst. [4]
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A) habitat. Phragmites reeds and female Chelostoma florisomne returning with pollen for her brood. B) fecal pellet of C. florisomne larva covered with spore cysts; pale spore balls are visible through the transparent spore cyst wall. C) close-up of spore cyst showing spore balls and smooth, unornamented spore cyst wall. D) spore balls. E) bacilliform ascospores. Scale bars: B = 200 µm, C = 50 µm, C = 10 µm, D = 15 µm, E = 10 µm. | |
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Genus: | Ascosphaera L.S.Olive & Spiltoir (1955)
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Ascosphaera apis (Maasen ex Claussen) L.S.Olive & Spiltoir (1955)
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Pericystis Betts (1912) [1] |
Ascosphaera is a genus of fungi in the family Ascosphaeraceae. It was described in 1955 by mycologists Charles F. Spiltoir and Lindsay S. Olive. [2] Members of the genus are insect pathogens. The type species, A. apis, causes chalkbrood disease in honey bees. [3] The reproductive ascospores of the fungus are produced within a unique structure, the spore cyst, or sporocyst. [4]