A sampler making discrete spore prints, useful for spore release studies

Burkard 7 Day Recording Volumetric Spore Sampler

STANDARD OF REFERENCE Built and developed with the assistance of scientists closely associated with problems relating to airborne particles such as fungus spores and pollens, the sampler has proved to be a standard of reference throughout the world. Although the instrument compares closely to the trap described by Hirst in 1952 (Ann app. Biol 39 pp. 257-265) its performance has been enhanced by...

Clostridium difficile Spore-Macrophage Interactions: Spore Survival

BACKGROUND Clostridium difficile is the main cause of nosocomial infections including antibiotic associated diarrhea, pseudomembranous colitis and toxic megacolon. During the course of Clostridium difficile infections (CDI), C. difficile undergoes sporulation and releases spores to the colonic environment. The elevated relapse rates of CDI suggest that C. difficile spores has a mechanism(s) to ...

Spore studies in the genus Gymnocarpium

PRYER, K. M., and D. M. BRITTON. 1983. Spore studies in the genus Gymnocarpiurn. Can. J. Bot. 61: 377-388. Scanning electron microscopy was used to examine the variation in perispore characters within and between six currently recognized taxa of the genus Gyrnnocarpiurn Newm. in North America. Representative scanning electron micrographs are presented and depict the perispore features observed....

SPORE Advances

No evidence for a Ganoderma spore dispersal mutualism in an obligate spore-feeding beetle Zearagytodes maculifer.

The role of spore dispersal mutualism remains equivocal in many fungus-insect assemblages. We tested experimentally whether an obligate spore-feeding beetle Zearagytodes maculifer has a mutualistic relationship with its host bracket fungus Ganoderma cf. applanatum via spore dispersal. We asked three specific questions: (1) whether or not Ganoderma spore germination rate is increased via beetle ...