Ascosphaera

Ascosphaera
	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.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Eurotiomycetes
Order:	Onygenales
Family:	Ascosphaeraceae
Genus:	Ascosphaera; L.S.Olive & Spiltoir (1955)
Type species
	Ascosphaera apis; (Maasen ex Claussen) L.S.Olive & Spiltoir (1955)
Synonyms
	Pericystis Betts (1912)

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]

Species

A. acerosa
A. aggregata
A. apis
A. asterophora
A. atra
A. callicarpa^[5]
A. celerrima
A. cinnamomea
A. duoformis
A. fimicola
A. flava
A. fusiformis
A. larvis
A. major
A. naganensis
A. osmophila
A. parasitica
A. pollenicola
A. proliperda
A. scaccaria
A. solina
A. subcuticularis
A. tenax
A. torchioi
A. variegata
A. verrucosa
A. xerophila

References

^ Betts AD. (1912). "A bee-hive fungus, Pericystis alvei, gen. et sp. nov". Annals of Botany. 26 (3): 795–800. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a089417.
^ Spiltoir CF, Olive LS (1955). "A reclassification of the genus Pericystis Betts". Mycologia. 47 (2): 238–44. doi:10.2307/3755414. JSTOR 3755414.
^ Capinera JL. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. p. 304. ISBN 978-1-4020-6242-1.
^ Wynns, A.A.; Jensen, A.B.; Eilenberg, J.; James, R. (2012), "Ascosphaera subglobosa, a new spore cyst fungus from North America associated with the solitary bee Megachile rotundata", Mycologia, 104 (1): 108–114, doi:10.3852/10-047, PMID 21828215, S2CID 26872248
^ Wynns AA, Jensen AB, Eilenberg J (2013). "Ascosphaera callicarpa, a new species of bee-loving fungus, with a key to the genus for Europe". PLoS ONE. 8 (9): e73419. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...873419W. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0073419. PMC 3783469. PMID 24086280.

External links

Ascosphaera in Index Fungorum

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[Betts_1912-1] Betts AD. (1912). "A bee-hive fungus, Pericystis alvei, gen. et sp. nov". Annals of Botany. 26 (3): 795–800. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a089417.

[Spiltoir_1955-2] Spiltoir CF, Olive LS (1955). "A reclassification of the genus Pericystis Betts". Mycologia. 47 (2): 238–44. doi:10.2307/3755414. JSTOR 3755414.

[Capinera_2008-3] Capinera JL. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. p. 304. ISBN 978-1-4020-6242-1.

[4] Wynns, A.A.; Jensen, A.B.; Eilenberg, J.; James, R. (2012), "Ascosphaera subglobosa, a new spore cyst fungus from North America associated with the solitary bee Megachile rotundata", Mycologia, 104 (1): 108–114, doi:10.3852/10-047, PMID 21828215, S2CID 26872248

[Wyns_2013-5] Wynns AA, Jensen AB, Eilenberg J (2013). "Ascosphaera callicarpa, a new species of bee-loving fungus, with a key to the genus for Europe". PLoS ONE. 8 (9): e73419. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...873419W. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0073419. PMC 3783469. PMID 24086280.