Water balance of a tick-fungus relationship, featuring the life cycle of the fungus scopulariopsis brevicaulis (sacc.) bainier (deuteromycota) in a tick host

Jay A. Yoder; Joshua B. Benoit; Eric J. Rellinger; Seth A. Murray; Lawrence W. Zettler

doi:10.1080/01647950408684375

Water balance of a tick-fungus relationship, featuring the life cycle of the fungus scopulariopsis brevicaulis (sacc.) bainier (deuteromycota) in a tick host

Jay A. Yoder, Joshua B. Benoit, Eric J. Rellinger, Seth A. Murray, Lawrence W. Zettler

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	93-101
Number of pages	9
Journal	International Journal of Acarology
Volume	30
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/01647950408684375
State	Published - 2004

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Funding for this research was provided, in part, by grants from Sigma Xi and the Wittenberg-CRGO.

Keywords

Fungi
Scopulariopsis
Symbiont
Tick

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Water balance of a tick-fungus relationship, featuring the life cycle of the fungus scopulariopsis brevicaulis (sacc.) bainier (deuteromycota) in a tick host

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