| Title |
Discovery of mycangia and the associated xylose-fermenting yeasts in stag beetles (Coleoptera: Lucanidae)
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|---|---|
| Published in |
The Science of Nature, January 2010
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| DOI | 10.1007/s00114-009-0643-5 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Masahiko Tanahashi, Kôhei Kubota, Norihisa Matsushita, Katsumi Togashi |
| Abstract |
Most wood-feeding insects need an association with microbes to utilize wood as food, and some have special organs to store and convey the microbes. We report here the discovery of the microbe-storage organ (mycangium) in stag beetles (Coleoptera: Lucanidae), which develop in decayed wood. The mycangium, which was discovered in the abdomen, is present in all adult females of 22 lucanid species examined in this study, but absent in adult males. By contrast, adult insects of both sexes of selected Passalidae, Geotrupidae, and Scarabaeidae, which are related to Lucanidae, lacked mycangia similar to those of the lucanid species. Yeast-like microbes were isolated from the mycangium of five lucanid species. DNA sequence analyses indicate that the microbes are closely related to the xylose-fermenting yeasts Pichia stipitis, Pichia segobiensis, or Pichia sp. known from the gut of a passalid species. |
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| Japan | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 3 | 75% |
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| Members of the public | 4 | 100% |
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| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| France | 1 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Japan | 1 | 1% |
| Poland | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 74 | 91% |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 16 | 20% |
| Researcher | 14 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 13 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 11% |
| Professor | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 14 | 17% |
| Unknown | 11 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 42 | 52% |
| Environmental Science | 15 | 19% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5 | 6% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 1 | 1% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 17 | 21% |
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