A fungus eats a cyanobacterium: The story of the Geosiphon pyriformis endocyanosis

Biology and Environment

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 11-14

  Kluge, Manfred ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; GEOSIPHON PYRIFORME; GEOSIPHON PYRIFORMIS;

EID: 0036742180     PISSN: 07917945     EISSN: 2009003X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3318/BIOE.2002.102.1.11     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

1. Gehrig, H., Schüßler, A. and Kluge, M. 1996 Geosiphon pyriformis, a fungus forming endocytobiosis with Nostoc (cyanobacteria), is an ancestral member of the Glomales: evidence by SSU rRNA analysis. Journal of Molecular Evolution 43, 71-81.
2. Kluge, M., Gehrig, H., Mollenhauer, D., Schnepf, E. and Schüßler, A. 1997 News on Geosiphon pyriformis, an endosymbiotic consortium of a fungus with a cyanobacterium. In H.E.A. Schenk, R. Hemnann, K.W. Jeon, N.E. Müller and W. Schwemmler (eds.), Eukaryotism and symbiosis, 469-76. New York. Springer.
3. Mollenhauer, D., Mollenhauer, R. and Kluge, M. 1996 Studies on initiation and development of the partner association in Geosiphon pyriformis (Kütz.) v. Wettstein, a unique endocytobiotic system of a fungus (Glomales) and the cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme (Kütz.) Hariot. Protoplasma 193, 3-9.
4. Schüßler, A. and Kluge, M. 2001 Geosiphon pyrifonnis, an endosymbiosis between fungus and cyanobacteria, and its meaning as a model for arbuscular mycorrhiza research. In B. Hock (ed.), The mycota. New York. Springer.