ECOLOGICAL STUDIES ON TILE SYMBIOSIS OF TER ITOMYCES ...

TABLE 6.2.2 Grworth of TerwitLanes Vrw the guts of alatos of
several species of Macrotermftinaeo
TZRMTZ SPBCIES ne nI
PLT%=TAGC OF PLATES POICENTAGE OF PLATES
ON WHICH ON WHICH
TEMTOMYCES GROWS TFIMITOMYCES GROWS
Anclatrotermes cavithomx 15 000 15 0*0
Ifacrotes. a bellicoatts 30 79-2' 30 10-7
flacratermes subUalinus, 15 000 15 0*0
Hicrotermes sp. A 30 3-3 30 50.0
Hicrotermes spo D 30 6*7 30 40.0
Hicrotermes- spo Z 4 0.10 5 40.0
Odentotermes smeathmani 15 000 15 O. 'o
TAM. E 6.2-3 Asx0ciation between the carriage of Termitoomyces, In the
Cuts of slates and the ability to establixh viablo f=gux comb in
Ulmratory cultureso
TEWllTs SpEcirz ESTABLIsimmm
OF VIAMLE
nmus com
SPORE.
CARRIAGE
ISOLATION OF
TEMITOMYCES
Anclotrotermes; eavithorax o (1) 0
7. vulneensis 0 (2) oft) 'I'
Macrotormes bellicosus + + (1) 4.
liacrotemes subhXalinus 0 (1) o (10 0
111crotemes zD* A (3) (3) +
Hicrotemp-s spo B
kticrotermes aD* D +
micratermes spo G
kticrotermen BDO Z
+
+
Odontotermes M u]2 erans'
_ _
o,, rmentl=ant
llseudacanthotermes--spinil
0
0 (4)
oM
o (I)
+n positive result (1) Johnson c-t al
0a nevative result (2) Sands (19W)
noýýtosted (3) Johnson (1901)
116cher (1951b)
(1981 in press)
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