Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor. J. Mycol.)
Thi Thuong Thuong Nguyen and Hyang Burm Lee*
Division of Food Technology, Biotechnology and Agrochemistry, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Chonnam National University,
Gwangju 61186, Korea
Correspondence to hblee@jnu.ac.kr
Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor J Mycol) December, 2016, 44(4):355-359.
https://doi.org/10.4489/KJM.2016.44.4.355
Received: October 29, 2016; Revised: November 18, 2016; Accepted: November 21, 2016
Published: December, 2016.
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During a survey of fungal diversity in insect guts in Korea, two fungal strains, EML-PGH2 and EML-PUKI88, were isolated from the gut of grasshopper and soldier fly larvae inhabiting the bulrush plants at a pond located in the Chonnam National University Arboretum, Gwangju, Korea. Based on their morphological characteristics and a phylogenetic analysis of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS1 and ITS2) and 5.8S rDNA sequences, the strains were identified as Blakeslea trispora. To our knowledge, the zygomycete species B. trispora has not been previously described in Korea.
Blakeslea trispora, Grasshopper, Mucorales, Soildier fly larva, Undiscovered taxa