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Microscopic fungi as food of cave invertebrate animals - a laboratory food preference experiment
Nováková, Alena ; Luptáčik, P. ; Kováč, L. ; Lukešová, Alena ; Šustr, Vladimír
The aim was to improve the methodology of the multi-choice food preference tests as a tool for investigation of feeding preference of cave invertebrates. Fungi and algae isolated from cave sediments of the Domica Cave system (NP Slovak Karst) were offered in cafeteria tests as a food to springtail .i.Folsomia candida./i., mites .i.Pantelozetes cavatica, Scheloribates pallidulus./i., and isopod .i.Mesoniscus graniger. M. graniger./i. preferred some species of algae, all offered fungi were rejected. Mainly algae and .i.Mucor./i. spp. from microscopic fungi are preferred by .i.S. pallidulus./i.. Preference of .i.Mucor./i. spp. was observed by cave mite .i.P. cavatica./i. and cave population of .i.F. candida./i. too. All cave animals showed low preference for offered food and have tendency to stay rather on clay cave sediment then on the food.
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Interesting records of microscopic fungi
Nováková, Alena
Six saprotrophic microfungi were presented in this paper - they were isolated during the study of micromycetes from cave systems of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania and from soils of post-mining areas in the U.S.A. Their occurrence and morphology were compared with literature records.
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Phytophagous mites - a danger for mycological laboratories
Nováková, Alena
Phytophagous mites represent a danger for mycological laboratories in point of view of damaged cultures and of a contamination with fungal spores transported on mite surfaces. Causes of mites widespread, methods of their liquidation and protection of microfungal strains are presented in this article.
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