Table 1

Distribution and diversity of Apterostigma Escovopsis infections.

Cultivar Clade

# colonies successfully sampled for symbiotic microbes

# colonies infected with Escovopsis

# colonies infected with...

# colonies infected with multiple Escovopsis types

brown Escovopsis

yellow Escovopsis

white Escovopsis

pink Escovopsis

G2

350

185 (52%)

141

64²

17

0

35¹

G3

55

6 (11%)

0

1²

0

5

0

G4

6

4 (67%)

4

0

0

0

0

Escovopsis types are identified here according to spore-color. ¹ For the G2-cultivar colonies, the number of infections based on spore-color exceeds the number of total infections because many colonies were infected with two or three Escovopsis types. ² Though sharing a similar spore-color, the G2-attacking and G3-attacking yellow Escovopsis have distinct micromorphologies (Currie, unpublished).

Gerardo et al. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2006 6:88   doi:10.1186/1471-2148-6-88