Lecture 11 - Fungi as parasites and pathogens

Question 1

Appressorium is a type of cell used to infect … …

Answer 1

host plants

Question 2

haustorium are hyphae specialised for taking nutrients from .. cells

Answer 2

living

Question 3

Fusarium is an .. producing the mycotoxin …

This mycotoxin binds to … causing cell death

Answer 3

ascomycete, deoxynivalenol

ribosomes

Question 4

Fusarium graminearum is expected to spread in increased conditions of ..

Answer 4

CO2

-atmospheric, global warming noo

Question 5

Ophiostoma ulmi causes .. .. .., which in the UK alone has caused ..% of Elms to be lost, about .. million trees.

Answer 5

Dutch elm disease
90, 25m
-It’s an ascomycetes fungi

Question 6

a hyperparasite is a parasite on a ..

Answer 6

parasite

Question 7

Cordyceps are a genus of .. fungi that are all … mainly on insects and arthropods

Answer 7

acsomycete, endoparasitoids

Question 8

a key difference between parasites and parasitoids is that parasitoids often … their host, while parasites .. off them

Answer 8

kill, live

Question 9

Chytridiomycosis is an infectious disease targetting .., it invades the .. layer of the skin

It’s caused by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and is responsible for >… species deaths and currently infects ..% of world ..

Answer 9

amphibians, surface

200, 30, amphibian

Question 10

Japanese tree frog behaviour is altered by chytrid fungus, causing .. and .. mating calls than uninfected males

Answer 10

rapid, longer

-probably to enhance fungal transmission

Question 11

psychrophilic fungi love the ..

Answer 11

cold

Question 12

white noise syndrome refers to .. parasitism, invasive growth on their .. and ..

Answer 12

bat
muzzle, wings
-5.7 million bat deaths
species decline >90% within 5 years of disease reaching a site