Browsing University of Pretoria: Research Output by Author "Aanen, Duur K."

Browsing University of Pretoria: Research Output by Author "Aanen, Duur K."

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  • Ancestral predisposition toward a domesticated lifestyle in the termite-cultivated fungus Termitomyces 
    Van de Peppel, Lennart J.J.; Nieuwenhuis, Mathijs; Auxier, Benjamin; Grum-Grzhimaylo, Alexey A.; Cardenas, Martha E.; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Lodge, D. Jean; Smith, Matthew E.; Kuyper, Thomas W.; Franco-Molano, Ana E.; Baroni, Timothy J.; Aanen, Duur K. (Elsevier, 2021-10)
    The ancestor of termites relied on gut symbionts for degradation of plant material, an association that persists in all termite families. However, the single-lineage Macrotermitinae has additionally acquired a fungal ...
  • Complementary symbiont contributions to plant decomposition in a fungus-farming termite 
    Poulson, Michael; Hu, Haofu; Li, Cai; Chen, Zhensheng; Xu, Luohao; Otani, Saria; Nygaard, Sanne; Nobre, Tania; Klaubauf, Sylvia; Schindler, Philipp M.; Hauser, Frank; Pan, Hailin; Yang, Zhikai; Sonnenberg, Anton S.M.; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Zhang, Yong; Wingfield, Michael J.; Grimmelikhuijzen, Cornelis J.P.; De Vries, Ronald P.; Korb, Judith; Aanen, Duur K.; Wang, Jun; Boomsma, Jacobus J.; Zhang, Guojie (National Academy of Sciences, 2014)
    Termites normally rely on gut symbionts to decompose organic matter but the Macrotermitinae domesticated Termitomyces fungi to produce their own food. This transition was accompanied by a shift in the composition of the ...
  • Genome reduction and relaxed selection is associated with the transition to symbiosis in the basidiomycete genus Podaxis 
    Conlon, Benjamin H.; Gostincar, Cene; Fricke, Janis; Kreuzenbeck, Nina B.; Daniel, Jan-Martin; Schlosser, Malte S.L.; Peereboom, Nils; Aanen, Duur K.; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Beemelmanns, Christine; Gunde-Cimerman, Nina; Poulsen, Michael (Cell Press, 2021-06)
    Insights into the genomic consequences of symbiosis for basidiomycete fungi associated with social insects remain sparse. Capitalizing on viability of spores from centuries-old herbarium specimens of free-living, facultative, ...
  • Patterns of interaction specificity of fungus-growing termites and Termitomyces symbionts in South Africa 
    Aanen, Duur K.; Ros, Vera I.D.; De Fine Licht, Henrik H.; Mitchell, Jannette; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Slippers, Bernard; Rouland-LeFevre, Corinne; Boomsma, Jacobus J. (BioMed Central, 2007-07)
    BACKGROUND: Termites of the subfamily Macrotermitinae live in a mutualistic symbiosis with basidiomycete fungi of the genus Termitomyces. Here, we explored interaction specificity in fungus-growing termites using samples ...
  • Phylogenetic analyses of Podaxis specimens from Southern Africa reveal hidden diversity and new insights into associations with termites 
    Conlon, Benjamin H.; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; De Fine Licht, Hendrik H.; Aanen, Duur K.; Poulsen, Michael (Elsevier, 2016-09)
    Although frequently found on mounds of the grass-cutting termite genus Trinervitermes, virtually nothing is known about the natural history of the fungal genus Podaxis (Agaricaceae) nor why it associates with termite ...
  • Phylogenetic and phylogenomic analyses reveal two new genera and three new species of ophiostomatalean fungi from termite fungus combs 
    Nel, Wilma Janine; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Wingfield, Michael J.; Poulsen, Michael; Aanen, Duur K.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Duong, Tuan A. (Taylor and Francis, 2021)
    The Ophiostomatales (Ascomycota) accommodates more than 300 species characterized by similar morphological adaptations to arthropod dispersal. Most species in this order are wood-inhabiting fungi associated with bark or ...
  • Reviewing the taxonomy of Podaxis : opportunities for understanding extreme fungal lifestyles 
    Conlon, Benjamin H.; Aanen, Duur K.; Beemelmanns, Christine; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; De Fine Licht, Henrik H.; Gunde-Cimerman, Nina; Schiott, Morten; Poulsen, Michael (Elsevier, 2019-03)
    There are few environments more hostile and species-poor than deserts and the mounds of Nasutitermitinae termites. However, despite the very different adaptations required to survive in such extreme and different ...
  • Termitomyces cryptogamus sp. nov. associated with Macrotermes natalensis in Africa 
    Van de Peppel, Lennart J.J.; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Aanen, Duur K.; Auxier, Ben (Mycotaxon, 2022-01-31)
    A new species of Termitomyces symbiotic with the termite Macrotermes natalensis is described from Africa. As there are no records of field collected basidiocarps within this lineage, traditional basidiocarp-based ...