Laboulbeniales
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| Laboulbeniales | |
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| Laboulbeniales on Harmonia axyridis | |
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| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Laboulbeniomycetes |
| Order: | Laboulbeniales Engler (1898) |
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Ceratomycetaceae |
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The Laboulbeniales are an order of fungi within the class Laboulbeniomycetes. They are quite well known among researchers, and thus have received a colloquial name, laboulbs.
These include the obligate insect parasites, with cellular thalli, predisposing these fungi to certain death without an insect host.
Laboulbeniales does not have any hyphae, instead parasitising its host through a black foot cell, which penetrates the insect tissue, allowing the fungus to access nutrients within its body.
These fungi can be some of the most host-specific parasites, even going so far as to often have a preference for sides on an insect.
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- C.J. Alexopolous, Charles W. Mims, M. Blackwell, Introductory Mycology, 4th ed. (John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken NJ, 2004) ISBN 0-471-52229-5
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