Few attempts have been carried out to test the egg-destroying ability of the egg-parasitic fungi against long-lasting egg stages of animal parasites.
Note: no faecal culture in the untreated group of kids showed the presence of nematophagous fungi.
The fitness traits encountered include the mycelial growth rate in fungi, and earliness, resistance against pathogens, seed number, and pollen fitness in plants.
The cultures were incubated and colony diameters of the fungi were measured at regular intervals.
The termites utilize the fungal nodules and the fungus combs are degraded by the fungi.
A total of 27 genera of parasites (2 fungi, 16 protozoa and 9 metazoa) were recovered.
Evidence from beta-tubulin phylogeny that microsporidia evolved from within the fungi.
All these mealybugs are normally ant-attended but are rarely associated with fungi.
