caa a22 4500 46906045X CHVBK 20180323132855.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19921101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01201491 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01201491 How relevant are house dust mite-fungal interactions in laboratory culture to the natural dust system? [Elektronische Daten] [D. Hay, B. Hart, R. Pearce, Z. Kozakiewicz, A. Douglas] Both house dust and house dust mitesDermatophagoides pteronyssinus contained a wider range of fungi than laboratory mite cultures. In total, nine species of fungi were isolated fromD. pteronyssinus in house dust, and these included three xerophilic species (Eurotium amstelodami, Aspergillus penicillioides andWallemia sebi) commonly found in laboratory cultures ofD. pteronyssinus. It is concluded that mites do interact with a similar range of fungi in natural dust and in laboratory culture, but that the diversity of fungal species in the laboratory is reduced and the density of individual fungal species in culture exceeds that of house dust. In a second experiment, dust samples were incubated at room temperature with 75% relative humidity. The diversity of fungi invariably declined from up to 13 genera to the few species recorded in laboratory culture. This suggests that the dominance of xerophilic fungi in laboratory mite rearings is mediated primarily by low relative humidity, and the exclusion of air-borne spores. Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., 1992 Hay D. Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK aut Hart B. Royal Agriculture College, Cirencester, UK aut Pearce R. Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK aut Kozakiewicz Z. CAB International Mycological Institute, Ferry Lane, Surrey, UK aut Douglas A. Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK aut Experimental & Applied Acarology Kluwer Academic Publishers 16/1-2(1992-11-01), 37-47 0168-8162 16:1-2<37 1992 16 10493 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01201491 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01201491 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hay D. Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hart B. Royal Agriculture College, Cirencester, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pearce R. Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kozakiewicz Z. CAB International Mycological Institute, Ferry Lane, Surrey, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Douglas A. Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Experimental & Applied Acarology Kluwer Academic Publishers 16/1-2(1992-11-01), 37-47 0168-8162 16:1-2<37 1992 16 10493 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer