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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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Does .i.Histoplasma capsulatum./i. occur in caves of middle Europe?
Nováková, Alena ; Chroňáková, Alica
During studies of micromycetes in several caves (Slovakia - NP Slovak Karst, Czech Republic), white-yellow to yellow coloured microfungal colonies on bat droppings are observed. Tuberculate conidia were estimated in microscopic slides prepared from these colonies. These conidia reminded with their size, shape, surface structures and type of conidiogenesis pathogenous micromycete fungus .i.Histoplasma capsulatum./i.. This micromycete species occurs on bat guano in warmer regions of the world. In Europe, this fungus was recorded from Italian caves and soils and it was also reported from Romania, but without the evidence of thermal dimorphism. After repeteadly isolations, two strains of this fungus were isolated from Slovak caves (Domica Cave and Jasovská Cave). Tests of pathogenity (intranasal and intraperitoneal application to SCID mouses) and of the evidence of thermal dimorphism were negative.
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Interesting records of fungi from Czech and Slovak Republics
Nováková, Alena
Some microfungi (.i.Goidanichiella barronii, Truncatella angustata, Myxotrichum deflexum, M. chartarum, Penicillium vulpinum, P../i. cf. .i.glandicola, Pidoplitchkoviella terricola, Zygosporium mycophilum, Coemansia./i. cf. .i.aciculifera, Gymnoascus reesii./i.) isolated from various substrates from Czech and Slovak Republics are presented. These microfungi are interesting in the point of view of their morphological character and of a substrate from which they were isolated, too.
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Potravní zdroje bezobratlých v Ardovské jeskyni a v jeskyni Domica - předběžné výsledky
Nováková, Alena ; Elhottová, Dana ; Krištůfek, Václav ; Lukešová, Alena ; Hill, P. ; Kováč, L. ; Mock, A. ; Luptáčik, P.
The chemistry (organic matter content and pH) of different substrates from the Ardovská and Domica Caves in the Slovak Karst National Park (Slovakia) and the composition of their microbial communities were studied. Differences in organic matter content and microbial communities were found between the substrates from the Domica and Ardovská Caves. A broad spectrum of photoautotrophic microorganisms (algae and cyanobacteria) was found in different cave microhabitats (cave sediment, rotten wood, earthworms casts and isopods faeces), but no algae were detected in the fresh bat droppings and in the intestinal tract of the isopod .i.M. graniger./i.. Microfungi and bacterial colonies play the primary role in transforming bat guano into a food source for saprophagous and microphytophagous invertebrates.
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Zajímavé a vzácné saprotrofní mikroskopické houby z exkrementů a ostatních substrátů jeskyně Domica a Ardovské jeskyně (NP Slovenský kras, Slovensko)
Nováková, Alena
A broad spectrum of saprotrophic microfungi representing possible food sources for cave invertebrates was isolated from different substrata (invertebrates, bat and marten excrements, bat guano, cave sediment, air) from the Domica and Ardovská Caves. .i.Pidoplitchkoviella terricola./i. and .i.Thielavia hyrcaniae./i. are rather rarely isolated micromycetes. The species interesting from the point of view of the colony appearance or microscopic properties were .i.Penicillium glandicola, Beauveria brongniartii, Chaetomium indicum, Penicillium hirsutum, Penicillium hordei, Rhinocladiella./i. sp., .i.Aspergillus versicolor, Echinobotryum./i. state of .i.Doratomyces stemonitis./i., and .i.Oidiodendron cerealis./i..
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Změny ve společenstvech půdní mikroflóry a mesofauny během rozkladu listového opadu ve dvou vegetačních zónách - litter bag experiment
Jirout, Jiří ; Petrásek, Jiří ; Čápová, Lenka ; Farská, Jitka ; Jínová, Kristýna ; Rusek, Josef ; Krištůfek, Václav ; Elhottová, Dana ; Starý, Josef ; Nováková, Alena
The hypothesis, whether autochthonous species of soil biota are able to decompose litter from lower vegetation zones in higher zones, was tested by field trial. Litterbags with litter of beech (.i.Fagus sylvatica./i. L.) and/or oak (.i.Quercus robur./i. L.) were exposed in beech and spruce forest on the mountain Kleť (Protected Landscape Area Blanský les). Litterbags layout simulated vegetation zones shift to the higher altitude induced by global warming. There were used litterbags with three different mesh size (42 µm, 0,5 mm, 2 mm) for exclusion of certain parts of edaphon. Several changes of soil bacteria and micromycetes, oribatid mites, springtails and gamasid mites were studied during two years of exposition. There were exposed 480 litterbags at the start of the experiment (November 2002). After 2, 4, 6, 12, 24 months of exposition parts of all litterbags were recovered. Immediately after the sampling litter pH(KCl), moisture and mass loss were measured.
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Mikroskopické houby v půdě, listovém opadu, exkrementech a střevním traktu .i.Dendrobaena mrazeki./i. (Lumbricidae)
Nováková, Alena ; Pižl, Václav
Species diversity and quantitative parameters (mycelial length, CFU counts) of saprotrophic microfungi assemblages were studied in the intestine and casts of .i.D. mrazeki./i. and compared with those in soil and litter at four plots of a thermophilous oak forest in Southern Moravia (Czech Republic) in 2004. Soil dilution plate method and soil washing technique and three isolation media were used for the isolation of fungi. Differences in species number and composition of fungi assemblages were found both among individual substrates studied and between the results of different isolation methods. Number of species isolated by the soil dilution plate method was higher in earthworm casts than in soil, however, the opposite results were obtained using soil washing technique. CFU counts reached the highest values in leaf litter.
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Soil microflora of spruce forests of the Bohemian Forest
Nováková, Alena ; Lukešová, Alena
Species composition and quantity of microalgae and micromycetes inhabiting soils of original spruce forest were studied in 3 localities of the Bohemian Forest (Trojmezná, Smrčina, Boubín) in years 2000-2003. Both intact plots, and those ones with selective tree cutting were compared in Trojmezná and Smrčina. In total, 46 species of algae and 72 taxa of micromycetes, represented by common soil species, were found in studied soils. Green algae (mainly Chlorophyceae and Charophyceae) prevailed both qualitatively and quantitatively among soil algae which was connected with low pH. All isolated micromycetes belonged to saprotrophic fungi. Total numbers of algal species ranged between 20-33 and total algal abundance between 48,1-4210,0 cells per g of dry soil in studied plots. Higher algal species richness was recorded in plots with selective tree cutting then in intact plots. Oposite trend of average total algal abundance was observed, despite big variations in particular sampling occasions. Numbers of taxa of saprophytic mycromycetes ranged between 32-40, lenght of mycelium between 6,1-84,5 m per g of dry soil, and numbers of CFU between 57,5-2413,4. No differences in species composition and quantity of saprotrophic micromycetes between intact plots and plots with tree cutting were found.
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