@Article{Ruiz-Gonzalez_etal2013, author="Ruiz-Gonz{\'a}lez, M.X. and Lauth, J. and Leroy, C. and Jauneau, A. and Gryta, H. and Jargeat, P. and Dejean, A. and Orivel, J.", title="An efficient protocol for isolating melanised chaetothyrialean anamorphic fungi associated with plant-ants", journal="Journal of Basic Microbiology", year="2013", volume="53", number="1", pages="98--100", optkeywords="Allomerus ants", optkeywords="Black fungi", optkeywords="Chaetothyriales", optkeywords="Fluorescent staining", optkeywords="Isolation method", abstract="Because of their ecological characteristics, slow growth rates and the presence of contaminants, Chaetothyriales fungi associated with structures built by tropical plant-ants can be difficult to isolate with standard procedures. Here, we describe an easy-to-use protocol for obtaining pure cultures by using cotton as a first substrate. We have further found by means of fluorescent stains that nuclei concentrate either in young hyphae or in the tips of the hyphae. {\textcopyright} 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH \& Co. KGaA, Weinheim.", optnote="Export Date: 6 February 2013; Source: Scopus", optnote="exported from refbase (http://php.ecofog.gf/refbase/show.php?record=461), last updated on Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:01:18 -0300", opturl="http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84872827634&partnerID=40&md5=118f1fbcb56582c6979c30d59afa000b" }