Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-75dct Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-05-04T15:16:09.518Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Rhizomucor tauricus: a questionable species of the genus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

CSABA VÁGVÖLGYI ,
MÁRIA VASTAG ,
KLÁRA ÁCS  and
TAMÁS PAPP
CSABA VÁGVÖLGYI
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, Attila József University, P.O. Box 533, H-6701 Szeged, Hungary
MÁRIA VASTAG
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, Attila József University, P.O. Box 533, H-6701 Szeged, Hungary
KLÁRA ÁCS
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, Attila József University, P.O. Box 533, H-6701 Szeged, Hungary
TAMÁS PAPP
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, Attila József University, P.O. Box 533, H-6701 Szeged, Hungary
Get access

Abstract

To test the validity of R. tauricus as a separate species, its carbon source utilization, isoenzyme patterns and PCR-coupled RFLP of the ITS of its rDNA were analysed. Whilst R. tauricus differed considerably from R. pusillus and R. miehei in morphological traits as well as its ability to row on single carbon sources, the results obtained from all other experimental approaches suggest extensive similarity between R. tauricus and R. pusillus. These findings lead us to believe that R. tauricus is a mutant heterothallic strain of R. pusillus.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mycological Research , Volume 103 , Issue 10 , October 1999 , pp. 1318 - 1322
Copyright
The British Mycological Society 1999

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)