TY - JOUR
T1 - Water balance of a tick-fungus relationship, featuring the life cycle of the fungus scopulariopsis brevicaulis (sacc.) bainier (deuteromycota) in a tick host
AU - Yoder, Jay A.
AU - Benoit, Joshua B.
AU - Rellinger, Eric J.
AU - Murray, Seth A.
AU - Zettler, Lawrence W.
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding for this research was provided, in part, by grants from Sigma Xi and the Wittenberg-CRGO.
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - We report isolation of the fungus Scopulariopsis brevicaulis from the lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum (L.), and document its association with hemolymph and integumental glands. The relationship thrives because the water balance of both the fungus and the tick are mutually preserved in spite of enormous fungus burdens, based on moisture requirements and antimycotic fungus removal. The fact that ticks are ideal to perpetuate this fungal life cycle is of public health interest because S. brevicaulis is known to cause infections in humans.
AB - We report isolation of the fungus Scopulariopsis brevicaulis from the lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum (L.), and document its association with hemolymph and integumental glands. The relationship thrives because the water balance of both the fungus and the tick are mutually preserved in spite of enormous fungus burdens, based on moisture requirements and antimycotic fungus removal. The fact that ticks are ideal to perpetuate this fungal life cycle is of public health interest because S. brevicaulis is known to cause infections in humans.
KW - Fungi
KW - Scopulariopsis
KW - Symbiont
KW - Tick
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=3042537075&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=3042537075&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01647950408684375
DO - 10.1080/01647950408684375
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:3042537075
SN - 0164-7954
VL - 30
SP - 93
EP - 101
JO - International Journal of Acarology
JF - International Journal of Acarology
IS - 2
ER -
