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Doveri F 2014 – Coprophilous pyrenomycetes s.l. from the Tuscan Archipelago and adjacent peninsular coast: description of five species new to Italy. Mycosphere 5(1), 188–216, Doi 10.5943/mycosphere/5/1/10 Abstract All author's collections of 55 pyrenomycetes s.l. so far known from dung in Tuscan coast and islands (Italy) are listed. Lophotrichus ma...
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... However, Arnium, Cercophora, and Rhytidospora also occur in other herbivore dung types from other region (Mungai et al., 2011;Zhao et al., 2013;Doveri, 2014;Basumatary et al., 2020), for example, Cercophora was recorded in the dung of elephants, barking deer, and horses in Thailand, and wild yaks in India (Basumatary et al., 2020;Mungai et al., 2011). In addition, given the small size of our dung samples, further studies on a wider range of herbivores dung are needed to confirm whether these coprophilous fungal types are specific to the herbivore taxa. ...
Coprophilous fungal spores are an emerging and potential proxies for indicating the long-term pastoral history. However, the indication of coprophilous fungal spores for dung and grazing intensity remains uncertain. In this study, in Horqin Sandy Land, 27 livestock dung samples and 33 surface soil samples were collected, and the indication of coprophilous fungal spores was discussed for the first time. The results showed that a total of 38 fungal spore types were recognized in the modern samples from the Horqin Sandy Land, including seven coprophilous fungal spore types. The coprophilous fungi assemblages vary in different dung types and may enable the diagnosis of specific livestock taxa. Coprophilous fungal spores, especially Sporormiella and Podospora are the most reliable dung indicators and can indicate the presence of herbivores. Moreover, some fungal spores, including Helminthosporium, Apiosordaria, HdV-104, and Glomus A were also potential indicators of grazing activities in the Horqin Sandy Land. On this basis, the concentration of coprophilous fungal spores may have the potential to be a quantitative indicator of grazing intensity. This study clarifies the indication of coprophilous fungal spores on dung and grazing intensity in the Horqin Sandy Land and provides a theoretical reference for further research on pastoral history in the region.
... Moreover, the cephalothecoid arrangement of cells of peridium is typical for the genus Elaphomyces Nees, which is considered as the sexual stage (teleomorph) of Cenococcum geophilum (LoBuglio et al. 1996). The cephalothecoid structure of fungal peridia is found in many extant often unrelated fungal genera (Worobiec et al. 2017), and rather similar cephalothecoid peridial wall structure to mantle tissue of Cenococcum geophilum could be found in some species of Chaetomidium (Zopf) Saccardo (Greif et al. 2009), rarely also from the genus Chaetomium Kunze (Doveri 2011(Doveri , 2013(Doveri , 2014. Rather similar cephalothecoid peridium to the mantle tissue of Cenococcum geophilum Fr. has fossil-species Adendorfia miocenica G. Worobiec, Neumann & E. Worobiec, described from Miocene locality of Adendorf, Germany (Worobiec et al. 2017). ...
Interesting fungal remains were encountered during palynological investigation of the Neogene deposits at the Gray Fossil Site, Washington County, Tennessee, USA. Both Cephalothecoidomyces neogenicus and Trichothyrites cf. padappakarensis are new for the Neogene of North America, while remains of cephalothecoid fungus Cephalothecoidomyces neogenicus G. Worobiec, Neumann & E. Worobiec, fragments of mantle tissue of mycorrhizal Cenococcum and sporocarp of epiphyllous Trichothyrites cf. padappakarensis (Jain & Gupta) Kalgutkar & Jansonius were reported. Remains of mantle tissue of Cenococcum for the fossil state are reported for the first time. The presence of Cephalothecoidomyces, Trichothyrites, and other fungal remains previously reported from the Gray Fossil Site suggest warm and humid palaeoclimatic conditions in the southeast USA during the late Neogene, which is in accordance with data previously obtained from other palaeontological analyses at the Gray Fossil Site.
... In the present investigation two isolates were isolated from rabbit dung. In their study, Doveri (2014) isolated 5 isolates of S. fimicola from horse collected from different areas of Italy. ...
Sixty-one isolates of Sordaria fimicola were isolated from the dung samples of cow (Bos taurus), horse (Equus caballus) buffalo (Bos taurus), donkey (Equus asinus), rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), sheep (Ovis aries), camel (Camelus bactrianus) and goat (Capra hircus) collected from different areas of Lahore by adopting a moist chamber method. The frequency of occurrence (62.5%) was higher for horse samples followed by cow and donkey. Microscopic characters such as colour of mycelia mat, shape of perithecia, arrangements of ascospores in the ascus were observed for morphological identification of isolated fungus. ITS region 1 and RAPD-SCAR analyses were made for the molecular characterization of isolates of S. fimicola. Diversity indices showed that diversity exists in all isolates. A monomorphic band of 200bp was amplified by ITS1 and ITS2 universal primers in all the isolates and showed 100% resemblance with S. fimicola when introduced in the NCBI BLAST database. Four of eight random decamer RAPD primers after initial screening amplified 22 bands among eight isolates, of which 13(59.0%) were polymorphic bands with average 5.5 bands per primer. Cluster analysis showed that the similarity coefficients ranged from 0.2-0.6. RL-4 and RL-7 locus amplified by R3 primer were sent for direct sequencing and contained 485 and 811 bp nucleotides. Successful SCAR primers were developed from sequenced RAPD fragments and submitted to GenBank under the accession number KY098763 for RAPD locus RL-7 and KY120322 for RL-4. Two stable SCAR markers called SCAR400 and SCAR500 were developed successfully that can be used to differentiate isolates of different areas.
