The effect of selected mountants and stains on the measurement of fungal spores

Autor: E. M. Oliver, P. D. Bridge, D. L. Hawksworth
Rok vydání: 1987
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Zdroj: Mycopathologia. 97:165-172
ISSN: 1573-0832
0301-486X
DOI: 10.1007/bf00437239
Popis: Spores from five genera of filamentous fungi were measured by light microscopy using thirteen different mounting and staining techniques. The measurements obtained for the different methods for each organism were compared. Measurements taken in mountants and stains such as 40% KOH, Lugol's iodine, and cold lactophenol cotton blue showed significant differences with four of the five isolates. Comparisons between living and herbarium specimens suggested that for other mountants this would not give rise to significant differences. Possible explanations for these results are reviewed, their significance for critical taxonomic studies considered, and recommendations to mycologists are made.
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