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dc.contributor.authorHarper, Carla
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-16T09:18:22Z
dc.date.available2021-03-16T09:18:22Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.date.submitted2018en
dc.identifier.citationHarper, C.J., Taylor, E.L., Walker, C., White, J.F., Serbet, R., Krings, M., Fungal sporulation in a Permian plant fragment from Antarctica. Bulletin of Geosciences, Bulletin of Geosciences, 13, 1, 2018, 13 - 26en
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dc.identifier.urihttp://www.geology.cz/bulletin/contents/art1681
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.geology.cz/bulletin/fulltext/1681_Harper_180331.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/95696
dc.descriptionPUBLISHEDen
dc.description.abstractDocumented evidence of fungi from the Permian of Antarctica mostly consists of dispersed remains that do not provide the whole complement of diagnostic features necessary to determine even broad systematic affinities. A dense cluster of> 250 fungal spores occurs within a degraded vascular plant (probably glossopteridalean) fragment in Permianpermineralized peat from Skaar Ridge, central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica. Spores are spheroidal to ovoid,~ 50 μm in diameter, and possess a massive wall composed of three wall components (wc1–3); one or two canals extend from the spore lumen to the outside. The spores are embedded in a confluent meshwork of tenuous hyphae. Structural similarities exist between the fossil spores and spores produced by certain present-day Mucoromycota, Ascomycota, and Basidiomycota; however, the precise systematic affinities of the fossils cannot be determined. The relationship between the spore producer and its also host plant remains unresolved. Nevertheless, the spatial arrangement of the spores within the plant structure suggests that the fungus required the host for sporulation, and perhaps even influenced plant development for this purpose. This discovery adds to the inventory of distinctive fungal fossils from the Permian of Antarctica and presents a new type of association/interaction between a Permian fungus and a vascular plant.en
dc.format.extent13en
dc.format.extent26en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesBulletin of Geosciences;
dc.relation.ispartofseries13;
dc.relation.ispartofseries1;
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dc.subjectDevelopmenten
dc.subjectInteractionen
dc.subjectGlossopterisen
dc.subjectParasitismen
dc.subjectSaprotrophismen
dc.subjectSpore wallen
dc.titleFungal sporulation in a Permian plant fragment from Antarctica. Bulletin of Geosciencesen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.type.supercollectionscholarly_publicationsen
dc.type.supercollectionrefereed_publicationsen
dc.identifier.peoplefinderurlhttp://people.tcd.ie/charper
dc.identifier.rssinternalid225807
dc.rights.ecaccessrightsopenAccess
dc.subject.TCDThemeSmart & Sustainable Planeten
dc.subject.TCDTagANTARCTICAen
dc.subject.TCDTagFOSSILen
dc.subject.TCDTagFUNGIen
dc.subject.TCDTagFossil Fungien
dc.subject.TCDTagFossil sporesen
dc.subject.TCDTagFossilsen
dc.subject.TCDTagMICROFUNGIen
dc.subject.TCDTagPERMIANen
dc.identifier.orcid_id0000-0002-3710-2137
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