Attraction of Nematodes to Living Mycelium of Nematophagous Fungi
- 1 May 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Microbiology Society in Journal of General Microbiology
- Vol. 112 (1) , 89-93
- https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-112-1-89
Abstract
Methods were designed to detect attraction and repulsion of nematodes by fungi and determine the attraction intensity of different fungi. Of 23 fungi tested, 15 attracted the bacteria-feeding nematode Panagrellus redivivus. Of the 14 nematophagous fungi tested, 10 attracted and 1 repelled nematodes, while 3 were neutral. Among 9 non-nematophagous fungi, 5 attracted nematodes. The attraction intensity increased with increasing dependence of the fungi on nematodes for nutrients.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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