Biology:Sporormiella

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Short description: Genus of fungi

Sporormiella
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Sporormiella

Ellis & Everh.
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Sporormiella nigropurpurea
Ellis & Everh.

Sporormiella is a genus of fungi in the family Sporormiaceae.[1] Species of the genus are obligately coprophilous, occurring on the dung of domestic livestock as well as wild herbivores.[2] The genus is distributed across boreal and temperate regions of the world, and contains about 80 species.[3] The spores have characteristic features–they are dark brown, septate and have a pronounced sigmoid germination pore, which enables their use in paleoecology as a proxy or indicator for the abundance of grazing mammals.[4][5]

References

  1. "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet (Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany) 13: 1–58. December 2007. http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp. 
  2. "Revision of the genera Sporormia and Sporormiella". Canadian Journal of Botany 50 (3): 419–77. 1972. doi:10.1139/b72-061. 
  3. Dictionary of the Fungi. (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. 2008. p. 658. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8. 
  4. "Sporormiella fungal spores, a palynological means of detecting herbivore density". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 237: 40–50. 2005. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.11.028. 
  5. "Four thousand years of environmental change and human activity in the Cochabamba basin, Bolivia". Quaternary Research 76: 58–68. 2011. doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2011.03.004. 

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