Biology:Massospora
| Massospora | |
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| Massospora cicadina | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Entomophthoromycota |
| Class: | Entomophthoromycetes |
| Order: | Entomophthorales |
| Family: | Entomophthoraceae |
| Genus: | Massospora Peck, 1879[1][2] |
| Type species | |
| Massospora cicadina Peck (1879)
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Massospora is a genus of fungi in the Entomophthoraceae family, within the order Entomophthorales of the Zygomycota.[3][4][5] This has been supported by molecular phylogenetic analysis (Gryganskyi et al. 2012).[6]
It includes more than a dozen obligate, sexually transmissible pathogenic species that infect (and kill) adult gregarious cicadas (Hemiptera) worldwide. At least two species are known to produce psychoactive compounds during infection.[7][8]
Named in 1879 by the American botanist Charles Horton Peck (1833-1917).[1]
The genus name of Massospora was derived from two words in the Greek, masso which means 'to grind' and spora for 'spore'. This then describes the complete disintegration of the host-insect's internal tissues eventually leading to a (described by the author as); “pulverulent mass of spores within” that can be seen after the terminal parts of the abdomen fall off.
Species
As accepted by Species Fungorum;[9]
- Massospora carinetae R.S. Soper (1974)
- Massospora cicadettae R.S. Soper (1981)
- Massospora cicadina Peck (1878)
- Massospora diceroproctae R.S. Soper (1974)
- Massospora diminuta R.S. Soper (1974)
- Massospora dorisianae R.S. Soper (1974)
- Massospora fidicinae R.S. Soper (1974)
- Massospora levispora R.S. Soper (1963)
- Massospora ocypetes R.S. Soper (1974)
- Massospora pahariae R.S. Soper (1981)
- Massospora platypediae R.S. Soper (1974)
- Massospora spinosa Cif., A.A. Machado & Vittal (1956)
- Massospora tettigatis R.S. Soper (1974)
Former species;[9]
- M. agrotidis (Sorokīn) Jacz. & P.A. Jacz (1931) = Sorosporella agrotidis, Hypocreales family
- M. cleoni Wize (1904) = Entomophthora cleoni, Entomophthoraceae
- M. richteri Bres. & Staritz (1892) = Entomophthora richteri, Entomophthoraceae
- M. staritzii Bres. (1892) = Entomophthora staritzii, Entomophthoraceae
- M. tipulae J.P. Porter (1942) = Zoophthora porteri, Entomophthoraceae
- M. uvella (Krass.) Jacz. & P.A. Jacz (1931) = Sorosporella uvella, Hypocreales
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Peck, C. H. 1879. Report of the Botanist. In: Thirty-First Annual Report on the New York State Museum of Natural History by the Regents of the University of the State of New York, pp. 19-60.
- ↑ "Massospora names - Encyclopedia of Life". https://eol.org/pages/23115/names.
- ↑ "Massospora Peck". GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2559685.
- ↑ "Taxonomy browser (Massospora)". National Center for Biotechnology Information. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=348616&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock.
- ↑ Elya, Carolyn; De Fine Licht, Henrik H. (12 November 2021). "The genus Entomophthora: bringing the insect destroyers into the twenty-first century &". IMA Fungus 12 (34): 34. doi:10.1186/s43008-021-00084-w. PMID 34763728.
- ↑ Gryganskyi AP, Humber RA, Smith ME et al (2012) Molecular phylogeny of the Entomophthoromycota. Mol Phylogenet Evol 65:682–694. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2012.07.026
- ↑ Macias, Angie M. (May 2020). "Evolutionary relationships among Massospora spp. (Entomophthorales), obligate pathogens of cicadas". Mycologia 112 (6): 1060–1074. doi:10.1080/00275514.2020.1742033. PMID 32412847.
- ↑ Cooley, John R.; Marshall, David C.; Hill, Kathy B. R. (2018-01-23). "A specialized fungal parasite (Massospora cicadina) hijacks the sexual signals of periodical cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Magicicada)". Scientific Reports 8 (1): 1432. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-19813-0. PMID 29362478. Bibcode: 2018NatSR...8.1432C.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Massospora - Search Page". Species Fungorum. http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/Names.asp?strGenus=Massospora.
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