Reintroducing Akanthomyces ampullifer: providing genetic barcodes, culture, and updated description for the dipteran pathogen rediscovered in Germany
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61388971%3A_____%2F24%3A00602776" target="_blank" >RIV/61388971:_____/24:00602776 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/24:10489267
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/mycosci/65/6/65_MYC645/_article" target="_blank" >https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/mycosci/65/6/65_MYC645/_article</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.47371/mycosci.2024.08.001" target="_blank" >10.47371/mycosci.2024.08.001</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Reintroducing Akanthomyces ampullifer: providing genetic barcodes, culture, and updated description for the dipteran pathogen rediscovered in Germany
Original language description
The genus Akanthomyces ( Ascomycota, Hypocreales) includes entomopathogenic species known to infect a variety of insects and spiders. In this study, we present the first isolate of A. ampullifer characterized by molecular methods, found on dead bodies of the common cave limoniid Limonia nubeculosa ( Diptera ) in the subterranean spaces of southwestern Germany. In total, seven specimens exhibited distinctive morphological traits that, when compared with historical records, confirm their identification as A. ampulliferparticularly noted for its affinity to dipteran hosts. Absent from culture collections and molecular repositories, this species has eluded detailed scientific documentation using modern methods. Our research bridges this knowledge gap, providing the first genetic identification barcodes of five genes, living culture, cultivation requirements, and an updated description. This overlooked fungus is phylogenetically most closely related to the species A. pyralidarum, A. laosensis, and some other species mostly associated with adult moths. It demonstrates a unique morphological signature with monoblastic phialides forming a layer on the surface of synnemata and produces long, cylindrical, chain-forming conidia. It prefers lower temperatures, exhibiting an inability to grow at 25 degrees C, coupled with notably slow growth in culture.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10606 - Microbiology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Mycoscience
ISSN
1340-3540
e-ISSN
1618-2545
Volume of the periodical
65
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
JP - JAPAN
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
260-269
UT code for WoS article
001364496300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85209876715