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Ascobolus

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The genus Ascobolus belongs to the Ascomycetes subclass Pezizomycetidae. It is entirely coprophilous, composed mainly of octosporus bipolar heterothallic species such as Ascobolus stercorarius (Bull.) Schroet. (Bulliard, 1791; Schroeter, 1893; Dowding, 1931; Green, 1931; Bistis, and Olive, 1954), Ascobolus immersus (Rizet, 1939) and Ascobolus magnificus (Dodge, 1912, 1920; Gwynne-Vaughan and Williamson, 1932; Dodge and Seaver, 1946; Yu Sun, 1954). A. stercorarius produces tetrads which are often well ordered; whereas the spores of A. immersus are placed in a haphazard manner. The latter is utilized much more frequently for genetic studies due to the fact that its large ascospores (55–65 μ) can easily be manipulated under a binocular dissecting microscope.

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    Bernard Decaris, Jacqueline Girard & Gérard Leblon

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Decaris, B., Girard, J., Leblon, G. (1974). Ascobolus. In: King, R.C. (eds) Bacteria, Bacteriophages, and Fungi. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1710-2_30

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