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LABOULBENIALESEXPLORING AND TESTING DNAEXTRACTION PROTOCOLS, CARRIONBEETLE HOSTS AND SPECIES IN „DEKAAISTOEP‟ (THE NETHERLANDS)byDanny Haelewaters© February 2011, Faculty of Sciences – Research group MycologyAll rights reserved. This master thesis contains confidential information andconfidential research results that are property to the UGent. The contents ofthis master thesis may under no circumstances be made public, nor completeor partial, without the explicit and preceding permission of the UGentrepresentative, i.e. the supervisor. The thesis may under no circumstances becopied or duplicated in any form, unless permission granted in written form.Any violation of the confidential nature of this thesis may impose irreparabledamage to the UGent. In case of a dispute that may arise within the contextof this declaration, the Judicial Court of Gent only is competent to be notified.Pictures front page: (from left to right) Hesperomyces virescens from Harmoniaaxyridis (specimen 1c, thallus 1) collected in „De Kaaistoep‟ (Tilburg, TheNetherlands), new for the mycoflora of The Netherlands; picture by DannyHaelewaters (2010). Carrion beetle Saprinus semistriatus; picture by UdoSchmidt (2008). Laboulbenia flagellata from Agonum assimile (specimen DH4,thalli G and H) collected at Schellandpolderdijk (Hingene, Belgium); picture byDanny Haelewaters (2009).