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Mycologia, 97(6), 2005, pp. 1335-1347.
© 2005 by The Mycological Society of America

Zygospores as evidence of sexual reproduction in the genus Orphella


Laia G. Valle 1
Sergi Santamaria

     Unitat de Botànica, Departament de Biologia Animal, de Biologia Vegetal i d’Ecologia, Facultat de Ciències, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193-Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain

The presence of zygospores in the genus Orphella is newly described. We found zygospores in three species of the genus, O. catalaunica, O. coronata and O. helicospora, which are all the species of the genus known from the Iberian territory. Zygospores are associated with a heterothallic conjugating sexual process in O. coronata, whereas in O. catalaunica and O. helicospora, they form homothallically. In all instances, zygospores are consistently associated with an organized pattern of sterile cells, forming structures comparable to those present with asexual trichospores. We compare the ontogeny of Orphella zygospores with that found in the harpellid Genistellospora homothallica and discuss the possible close relationship of Orphella with Kickxellales (Zygomycetes). We report O. coronata in Spain for the first time, replacing all previous records of O. haysii. Results are supported with line drawings and photographs.

Key words: conjugation, Harpellales, Kickxellales, Plecoptera, systematics

1 Corresponding author. E-mail: laia.guardia{at}uab.es




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