Aplanochytrium kerguelensis gen. nov. spec. nov., a new phycomycete from subantarctic marine waters

• Published in: Archiv f�r Mikrobiologie
• Main Authors: Sparrow, Frederick K., Bahnweg, Günther
• Other Authors: Department of Botany, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, Ann Arbor
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer-Verlag 1972
• Subjects: Biotechnology; Microbial Ecology; Cell Biology; Life Sciences; Biochemistry; General; Ecology; Microbiology; Natural Resources and Environment; Molecular; Cellular and Developmental Biology; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Health Sciences; Science; Kerguelen; Kerguelen Islands; Indian
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/46151; https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00715023

A new monocentric marine fungus, Aplanochytrium kerguelensis gen. nov. spec. nov., was recovered from water samples taken in the vicinity of the Kerguelen Islands in the South Indian Ocean during a cruise of the research vessel USNS “Eltanin”. Aplanochytrium is very similar to Thraustochytrium Sparrow (1936) in having a chytrid-like thallus and in being able to utilize pine pollen as a substrate to which it establishes contact by well-developed rhizoids. At maturity, however, only aplanospores are formed, as in Dermocystidium sensu Goldstein and Moriber (1966). Peer Reviewed http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/46151/1/203_2004_Article_BF00715023.pdf