Illustrating the Bat-Bat Fly-Laboulbeniales Tripartite System (IMAGE)

Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Illustrating the Bat-Bat Fly-Laboulbeniales Tripartite System

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(A) A Carollia perspicillata bat with two Speiseria ambigua bat flies (arrowheads), captured at La Virgen de Sarapiquí, Costa Rica. (B) A bat of the Hipposideros caffer/ruber complex with a single Penicillidia sp. on its head, from Forikrom, Ghana. Image provided by Julian Schmid. (C) Trichobius joblingi (from Carollia perpicillata), with thalli of an undescribed species of Gloeandromyces on its abdomen (arrowheads). Image provided by André De Kesel. (D-E) Trichobius costalimai (from Phyllostomus discolor), with thalli of Nycteromyces streblidinus on its thorax, from Peña Blanca Peninsula, Panama. Scanning electron microscopy images provided by Alena Maidel. Nycteromyces is dioecious, which means that (male) antheridia and (female) perithecia are housed on separate individuals. (D) Three female thalli are indicated by arrowheads. (E) Close-up of a single male thallus, forming antheridia that produce spermatia. (F) Gloeandromyces sp. nov., recognized by its finger-like projection at the perithecium (the spore-producing organ) and supported by sequence data (referred to as Gloeandromyces sp. nov. 3 in [8]). Scale bars: (C-D) = 250 μm, (E-F) = 50 μm.

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Danny Haelewaters, Harvard University, The Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

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