Abstract
Ascosphaera apis is an intestinally infective, spore-forming, filamentous fungus that infects honeybees and causes deadly chalkbrood disease. Although A. apis has been known for 60 y, little is known about the ultrastructure of the spores. In this study, the fine morphology and ultrastructure of an isolate, A. apis CQ1 from southwest China, was comprehensively identified by transmission electron microscopy, confocal laser scanning microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and optical microscopy. The high sequence similarity and phylogenetic data based on nuc rDNA ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 (ITS) supported the hypothesis that the CQ1 strain is a new member of the A. apis species. Morphological observation indicated that the mature spores are long ovals with an average size of 2 × 1.2 µm and are tightly packed inside spherical spore balls. More than 10 spore balls that were 8-16 µm in diameter were wrapped and formed a spherical, nearly hyaline spore cyst of 50-60 µm in diameter. Ultrastructural analysis showed that mature spores have two nuclei with distinctly different sizes. A large nucleus with double nuclear membranes was found in the center of the spore, whereas the small nucleus was only one-fifth of the large nucleus volume and was l...Continue Reading
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