Research advances of fungal diversity in combs of fungus-growing termites
白蚁菌圃真菌多样性研究进展

Fungus-growing termites cultivate fungi on a substrate called 'fungus comb' inside their nests. Fungus comb has rigid,friable and porous structure,which is considered as a unique fungus-living environment. When fungus-growing termites live in the nest,the mutualistic basidiomycete Termitomyces species are the dominant fungi on the comb; when the termite colony dies,or fungus comb is incubated without termites in the laboratory,fruiting bodies of the ascomycete genus Xylaria appear and rapidly cover the fung...