Phaeoacremonium rubrigenum--hyphomycete associated with bark beetles found in Czechia

Folia Microbiol (Praha). 2004;49(2):99-104. doi: 10.1007/BF02931381.

Abstract

Phaeoacremonium is a recently described genus (Crous et al. 1996) associated with decline diseases of woody hosts and with human infections. During a study of surface mycobiota of the oak bark beetles, the hyphomycetous microfungus Phaeoacremonium rubrigenum was isolated from larvae of Scolytus intricatus (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) and their galleries on Quercus robur and also from an adult of Leperisinus fraxini found under the bark of Fraxinus excelsior. The species determination was confirmed by rDNA (ITS1-5.8S-ITS2) comparison. P. rubrigenum was recorded for the first time in Czechia. The records on oak are considered to be the first ones in the world. A description of morphological features and figures of the fungus are given. Representative strains are maintained in the Culture Collection of Fungi (CCF), Faculty of Science, Charles University (Prague, Czechia).

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Ascomycota / classification*
  • Ascomycota / cytology
  • Ascomycota / genetics
  • Ascomycota / isolation & purification*
  • Coleoptera / microbiology*
  • Czech Republic
  • DNA Fingerprinting
  • DNA, Fungal / analysis
  • DNA, Fungal / chemistry
  • DNA, Fungal / isolation & purification
  • DNA, Ribosomal / chemistry
  • DNA, Ribosomal / isolation & purification
  • Fraxinus / parasitology
  • Genes, Fungal
  • Genes, rRNA
  • Larva / microbiology
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Quercus / parasitology
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 18S / genetics
  • Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Technique
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA

Substances

  • DNA, Fungal
  • DNA, Ribosomal
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 18S

Associated data

  • GENBANK/AJ575811