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Molecular Identification of Anaerobic Rumen Fungi

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Anaerobic fungi are phylogenetically unique and form a separate group, the Neocallimastigomycota, among the chitinous fungi. Until now six genera are described within that phylum, namely the monocentric genera Neocallimastix, Caecomyces and Piromyces as well as the polycentric genera Anaeromyces, Cyllamyces and Orpinomyces. This chapter gives a brief survey of the fascinating world of anaerobic rumen fungi, their phylogeny, and identification. The golden standards of molecular identification as well as promising alternatives will be discussed.

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Acknowledgments

The authors express their gratitude to L. Jay Yanke (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge Research Centre, Lethbridge, AB, Canada) for providing Neocallimastix frontalis strain SR4. This project was a component of the institutional research plan (AV OZ 5045 0515) of the Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague. The czech team was supported by The National Agency for Agriculture Research (project no. QI92A286/2008), The german team was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (project no. Vo 772/7-1), which is part of a bilateral grant between the Czech Science Foundation and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

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Eckart, M., Fliegerová, K., Hoffmann, K., Voigt, K. (2010). Molecular Identification of Anaerobic Rumen Fungi. In: Gherbawy, Y., Voigt, K. (eds) Molecular Identification of Fungi. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05042-8_14

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