Journal
FUNGAL ECOLOGY
Volume 2, Issue -, Pages 87-97Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2009.01.005
Keywords
Most probable number [MPN] technique; Neocallimastigales; Niche competition; Paradox of the plankton; Rumen fungi
Funding
- UK Home Office [PPL 40/1513]
- Turkish Government
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We employed most probable numbers (MPNs) enumeration of enrichment cultures, combined with the use of a range of carbon sources (glucose, cellobiose, cellulose, xylan and wheat straw), to recover and identify morphologically different groups of anaerobic fungi (monocentric rhizoidal [Neocallimastix, Piromyces spp.], polycentric rhizoidal [Anaeromyces, Orpinomyces spp.], bulbous non-rhizoidal [Caecomyces, Cyllamyces spp.]) from rumen digesta, and fresh or frozen-thawed faeces of silage-fed cattle. Highest MPN counts (> 10(6) thallus forming units [TFU] g (1)dry matter (DM)) were obtained using wheat straw but use of other carbon sources revealed large variation in the relative abundance of the morphotypes recovered in culture. Polycentric morphotypes were overall the most abundant fungi, comprising ca. 60 % of observations and recovered most frequently with xylan and wheat straw. Bulbous morphotypes showed a reciprocal pattern of occurrence, being most frequently observed on glucose, cellobiose and cellulose. Monocentric morphotypes were surprisingly the least abundant (<10 % overall), occurring mostly on glucose and wheat straw. Freezing of faeces (-20 degrees C/5 weeks) and thawing prior to enrichment culture reduced MPN counts by ca. 40 % from a mean of 1.8 x 10(5) TFU g(-1) DM, but greater relative abundance of polycentric morphotypes in frozen-thawed faeces suggested differential survival in response to environmental stresses. PCR-RFLP demonstrated the simultaneous presence of seven ribotypes in one animal, but not all ribotypes could be associated with a particular genus. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd and The British Mycological Society. All rights reserved.
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