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Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal spores were isolated and identified morphologically from soil samples collected from a wheat field at a suburb of Jiangdu, China. Only one speciesGlomus caledonium and a small proportion of its spores were occupied by other spores. The occupant spores all belonged toGlomus microaggregatum. The number ofG. microaggregatum spores inhabiting a singleG. caledonium spore was generally approximately from 5 to 50, depending on the size of the occupied spore and its inhabitants. To our knowledge, this is the first observation thatG. caledonium can be occupied byG. microaggregatum spores.
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Wang, F.Y., Lin, X.G. & Hu, J.L. Glomus caledonium spores can be occupied byGlomus microaggregatum spores. Ann. Microbiol. 59, 693–697 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03179210
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