Meanings
adjectiveascomycotan (not comparable)
- not comparableOf or relating to the Ascomycota.
All ambrosia beetles studied to date cultivate ascomycotan fungi: early colonizers of recently killed trees with poor wood digestion.
2015 September 15, “New Fungus-Insect Symbiosis: Culturing, Molecular, and Histological Methods Determine Saprophytic Polyporales Mutualists of Ambrosiodmus Ambrosia Beetles”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
Origin
From taxonomic name Ascomycota + -an.
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