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    The term mycangium (pl., mycangia) is used in biology for special structures on the body of an animal that are adapted for the transport of symbiotic...
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    eggs with fungal endosymbionts into wood. The fungus is contained in a mycangium which nourishes it with secretions, and in turn it digests wood for the...
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    (Fusarium euwallaceae) carried in a specific structure called mycangium. In E. fornicatus, the mycangium is located in the mandible. The combination of massive...
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    fungus, harbored in the mycangium of the redbay ambrosia beetle Xyleborus glabratus, is in the form of a budding yeast in the mycangium and a filamentous fungus...
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  • X. crassiusculus is grazing upon the gallery. When within the beetle mycangium (a pocket in the insect cuticle for fungal dispersal), A. roeperi can...
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  • a dense patch of short erect setae that resemble a pronotal-mesonotal mycangium. Pronotal disc is glabrous. Pronotum consists with lateral costa and carina...
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    ; French, John R.J. (January 1976). "Ultrastructure of the mesonotal mycangium of an ambrosia beetle, Xyleborus Dispar (F.) (Coleoptera: scolytidae)"...
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    female beetles have a specialized pocket inside their mouths, known as mycangium, where they maintain a population of fungal symbiont. This fungus gets...
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    Ophiostomatales) in Burmese (Myanmar) amber, and evidence for a femoral mycangium". Fungal Biology. 122 (12): 1159–1162. doi:10.1016/j.funbio.2018.08.002...
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  • a dense patch of short erect setae that resemble a pronotal-mesonotal mycangium. Pronotal disc is moderately punctate. Pronotum consists with lateral...
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  • elytra have a broad square end and spines at the top. Females have a mycangium on the pronotum for carrying symbiotic fungi spores. Although this trait...
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    a dense patch of short erect setae that resemble a pronotal-mesonotal mycangium. Pronotal disc is moderately punctate. Pronotum consists with lateral...
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  • walls of the galleries. The fungus is transmitted by the female in a mycangium. Adults can be controlled by natural predators such as lizards, clerid...
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  • erect setae. This patch indicates the presence of pronotal-mesonotal mycangium. Pronotal disc is moderately granulate. Pronotum is with lateral non-carinate...
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  • walls of the galleries. The fungus is transmitted by the female in a mycangium. Duration of the egg stage is about 4 days, and the larval stage is about...
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  • Ophiostomatales) in Burmese (Myanmar) amber, and evidence for a femoral mycangium". Fungal Biology. 122 (12): 1159–1162. Bibcode:2018FunB..122.1159P. doi:10...
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