| entomopathogenic fungi for mosquito control: a review. | fungal diseases in insects are common and widespread and can decimate their populations in spectacular epizootics. virtually all insect orders are susceptible to fungal diseases, including dipterans. fungal pathogens such as lagenidium, coelomomyces and culicinomyces are known to affect mosquito populations, and have been studied extensively. there are, however, many other fungi that infect and kill mosquitoes at the larval and/or adult stage. the discovery, in 1977, of the selective mosquito-pa ... | 2004 | 15861235 |
| examining new phylogenetic markers to uncover the evolutionary history of early-diverging fungi: comparing mcm7, tsr1 and rrna genes for single- and multi-gene analyses of the kickxellomycotina. | the recently recognised protein-coding genes mcm7 and tsr1 have shown significant promise for phylogenetic resolution within the ascomycota and basidiomycota, but have remained unexamined within other fungal groups (except for mucorales). we designed and tested primers to amplify these genes across early-diverging fungal clades, with emphasis on the kickxellomycotina, zygomycetous fungi with characteristic flared septal walls forming pores with lenticular plugs. phylogenetic tree resolution and ... | 2013 | 24027350 |
| life cycle of a new species of duboscqia (microsporida: thelohaniidae) infecting the mosquito anopheles hilli and an intermediate copepod host, apocyclops dengizicus. | a new species of microsporida, duboscqia dengihilli, was found infecting larvae of the mosquito anopheles hilli in northern queensland, australia. laboratory experiments showed that binucleate spores formed within infected female mosquitoes were responsible for transovarial transmission to the next generation. sporogony within the larval fat body was initiated by two diplokarya, one at each end of the cell, which undergo meiosis within a single sporophorous vesicle to form 16 meiospores. these s ... | 1993 | 8228319 |