Absence of obvious short-term impact of the nematode-trapping fungus Duddingtonia flagrans on survival and growth of the earthworm Aporrectodea longa

Autor: Jens Wolstrup, Jørn Grønvold, Peter Nansen, Henrik Bjørn, M. Larsen
Rok vydání: 2000
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Zdroj: Acta Vet Scand
University of Copenhagen
ISSN: 0044-605X
Popis: Grønvold J, Wolstrup J, Larsen M, Nansen P, Bjørn H: Absence of obvious short term impact of the nematode-trapping fungus Duddingtonia flagrans on survival and growth of the earthworm Aporrectodea longa. Acta vet. scand. 2000, 41, 147–151 – The nematode-trapping fungus Duddingtonia flagrans may be used in biological control of parasitic nematode larvae in faeces of domestic host animals after feeding the hosts with fungal chlamydospores. In this experiment a possible undesirable fungal impact on earthworms, of the species Aporrectodea longa, was investigated. As earthworms eat animal faeces, D. flagrans may come into contact with earthworms both in their alimentary tract and on their body surface. However during the experimental period of 20 days, when earthworms were living in soil and eating cattle faeces that were heavily infested with viable chlamydospores of D. flagrans there were no indications of internal or external mycosis among the earthworms.
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