Sentence examples for dead fungi from inspiring English sources

In July, scientists reported that they had discovered that a certain type of toad could acquire immunity through contact with dead fungi.

This hope arises because the study found that amphibians can acquire resistance to the fungus after repeated exposures, can be immunised by contact with dead fungi, and can even learn to avoid exposing themselves to infectious fungi.

Characteristic band at 1600 cm−1 is sometimes recognized, which is associated with low-molecular-weight organic compounds due to fungal metabolites and decomposition of cell walls of dead fungi [41].

In addition, spore microscopy and qPCR detect not only dead fungi but those that compete poorly on the various media used to grow fungi.

Consequently, they are biased by difficulties to grow some species on certain culture media and under certain conditions or by noncultivable or dead fungi that can consequently not be identified.

Similarly, in the two species with naked pupae, live fungus-exposed pupae were removed at higher rates than sham-treated pupae, and also than dead fungus in C. smithi, whereas Li. humile only showed a near-significant trend in this direction (live fungus vs dead fungus; C. smithi: P = 0.005, Li. humile: P = 0.073; dead fungus vs sham control for both species P ≥ 0.441).

Only C. smithi brought in fewer pupae treated with live fungus than dead fungus or sham control, with the latter being retrieved at non-significantly different rates (Wald-χ = 11.53, d.f. = 2, P = 0.003; pairwise comparisons: live fungus vs sham control: P = 0.002; live vs dead fungus: P = 0.005, dead fungus vs sham control: P = 0.086).

Fungal outgrowth was not restricted to the brood items that were experimentally exposed to live fungal conidiospores, but also occurred on sham-treated and dead fungus-exposed brood (inside: sham control: 4/10; dead fungus: 2/10; outside: sham control: 30/152; dead fungus: 36/152), indicating that the disease had been transmitted to approximately 22% of the previously healthy brood.

In contrast, cocooned pupae exposed to live fungus were not removed at higher rates than cocooned pupae exposed to dead fungus or a sham control.

Species with naked pupae removed consistently more brood items (both larvae and pupae) treated with live fungus than sham control and dead fungus.

Conidiospores were either alive (live fungus; 98% germination rate) or killed by UV irradiation (312 nm with 6*15 W for 1 h, see [ 31]; dead fungus; 0% germination).