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[Cellulolytic activity of coprophilic fungi]
L N Levin1, A S Sívori, A G Pardo
1Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Abstract:
Fourteen isolates, members of the Ascobolaceae family, representing two widespread genera, Ascobolus and Saccobolus, were obtained from dung of herbivorous animals. All the isolates were capable of growing and producing clearing zones in CMC agar media. The species of Ascobolus gave larger clearing zones than the species of Saccobolus. S. verrucisporus and S. longevisporus were the most cellulolytic species in this genera while A. bistisii was the most cellulolytic among all the species tested. The results obtained showed that more than one method of screening must be employed to analyse the cellulolytic ability of different species.