Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-jn8rn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T04:45:32.090Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Interaction between the nematophagous fungus Duddingtonia flagrans and infective larvae of Haemonchus contortus (Nematoda: Trichostrongyloidea)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2008

A.K. Campos ,
J.V. Araújo  and
M.P. Guimarães
A.K. Campos*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Parasitologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Caixa Postal 486, Belo Horizonte, CEP 31270-901Minas Gerais, Brazil UNIVIÇOSA, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil
J.V. Araújo
Affiliation:
Departamento de Veterinária, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais36570-000, Brazil
M.P. Guimarães
Affiliation:
Departamento de Parasitologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Caixa Postal 486, Belo Horizonte, CEP 31270-901Minas Gerais, Brazil
*
*E-mail: arturkanadani@hotmail.com
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The interaction between Duddingtonia flagrans and infective larvae of Haemonchus contortus was studied in vitro under optical and scanning electron microscopy. Trap formation by the fungus started 9 hours after inoculation and first larvae were found 11 hours after larval inoculation on colonies grown on the surface of dialysis membranes. Scanning electron micrographs were taken 12, 24, 36 and 48 h after larval predation. Details of predation structures and fungus–larvae interaction are described. A mucilaginous substance occurred at the points of adherence of traps to nematode cuticle. Bacteria were also found at some points of interaction between fungus and larval cuticle. Cuticle penetration by fungus hyphae occurred only 48 h after predation.

Type
Research Papers
Information
Journal of Helminthology , Volume 82 , Issue 4 , December 2008 , pp. 337 - 341
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Barçante, J.M.P., Barçante, T.A., Dias, S.R.C., Lima, W.S. & Negrão-Corrêa, D. (2003) A method to obtain axenic Angiostrongylus vasorum first-stage larvae from dog feces. Parasitology Research 89, 89–93.Google ScholarPubMed
Barron, G.L. (1977) The nematode destroying fungi. pp. 1–140in Topics in mycobiology. no. 1.Guelph, Ontario, Canadian Biological Publications Ltd.Google Scholar
Dupponois, R., Amadou, M.B. & Matteile, T. (1998) Effect of some rhizosphere bacteria for the biocontrol of nematodes of the genus Meloidogyne with Arthrobotrys oligospora. Fundamental and Applied Nematolology 2, 157–163.Google Scholar
Larsen, M. (2000) Prospects for controlling animal parasitic nematodes by predacious microfungi. Parasitology 120, 121–131.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Maia, A.S., Santos, J.M. & Di Mauro, A.O. (2001) Estudo in vitro da habilidade predatória de Monacrosporium robustum sobre Heterodera glycines. Fitopatologia Brasileira 26, 732–736.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mendoza-de-Gives, P., Davies, K.G., Clark, S.J. & Behnke, J.M. (1999) Predatory behaviour of trapping fungi gainst of srf mutants of Caenorhabditis elegans and different plant and animal parasitic nematodes. Parasitology 119, 95–104.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Murray, D.S. & Wharton, D.A. (1999) Capture and penetration processes of the free-living juveniles of Trichostrongylus colubriformis (Nematoda) by the nematophagous fungus, Arthrobotrys oligospora. Parasitology 101, 93–100.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nansen, P., Gronvold, J., Henriksen, S.A. & Wolstrup, J. (1986) Predacious activity of the nematode-destroying fungus Arthrobotrys oligospora, on preparasitic larvae of Cooperia oncophora and on soil nematodes. Proceedings of the Heminthological Society of Washington 53, 237–243.Google Scholar
Nordbring-Hertz, B. (1983) Dialysis membrane technique for studying microbial interaction. Applied Environmental Microbiology 45, 399–407.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Nordbring-Hertz, B. (1988) Nematophagous fungi: Strategies for nematode exploitation and for survival. Microbiology Science 5, 108–116.Google ScholarPubMed
Veenhuis, M., Nordbting-Hertz, B. & Harder, W. (1985) An electron microscopical analysis of capture and initial stages of nematodes by Arthrobotrys oligospora. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 51, 385–398.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed