Global InformationMassospora information
| Massospora | |
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| Massospora cicadina | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Entomophthoromycota |
| Class: | Entomophthoromycetes |
| Order: | Entomophthorales |
| Family: | Entomophthoraceae |
| Genus: | Massospora Peck, 1879[1][2] |
| Type species | |
| Massospora cicadina Peck (1879)
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Massospora is a genus of fungi in the Entomophthoraceae family, within the order Entomophthorales of the Zygomycota.[3][4][5] This has been supported by molecular phylogenetic analysis (Gryganskyi et al. 2012).[6]
It includes more than a dozen obligate, sexually transmissible pathogenic species that infect (and kill) adult gregarious cicadas (Hemiptera) worldwide. At least two species are known to produce psychoactive compounds during infection:[7][8] M. cicadina is known to produce cathinone; M. platypediae or M. levispora produces psilocybin.[9]
Named in 1879 by the American botanist Charles Horton Peck (1833–1917).[1]
The genus name of Massospora was derived from two words in the Greek, masso which means 'to grind' and spora for 'spore'. This then describes the complete disintegration of the host-insect's internal tissues eventually leading to a (described by the author as), "pulverulent mass of spores within" that can be seen after the terminal parts of the abdomen fall off.
- ^ a b Peck, C. H. 1879. Report of the Botanist. In: Thirty-First Annual Report on the New York State Museum of Natural History by the Regents of the University of the State of New York, pp. 19-60.
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- ^ "Massospora Peck". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
- ^ "Taxonomy browser (Massospora)". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
- ^ Elya, Carolyn; De Fine Licht, Henrik H. (12 November 2021). "The genus Entomophthora: bringing the insect destroyers into the twenty-first century &". IMA Fungus. 12 (34): 34. doi:10.1186/s43008-021-00084-w. PMC 8588673. PMID 34763728.
- ^ Gryganskyi AP, Humber RA, Smith ME et al (2012) Molecular phylogeny of the Entomophthoromycota. Mol Phylogenet Evol 65:682–694. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2012.07.026
- ^ Macias, Angie M. (May 2020). "Evolutionary relationships among Massospora spp. (Entomophthorales), obligate pathogens of cicadas". Mycologia. 112 (6): 1060–1074. doi:10.1080/00275514.2020.1742033. PMID 32412847. S2CID 218659452.
- ^ Cooley, John R.; Marshall, David C.; Hill, Kathy B. R. (2018-01-23). "A specialized fungal parasite (Massospora cicadina) hijacks the sexual signals of periodical cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Magicicada)". Scientific Reports. 8 (1): 1432. Bibcode:2018NatSR...8.1432C. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-19813-0. PMC 5780379. PMID 29362478.
- ^ Boyce, Greg R.; Gluck-Thaler, Emile; Slot, Jason C.; Stajich, Jason E.; Davis, William J.; James, Tim Y.; Cooley, John R.; Panaccione, Daniel G.; Eilenberg, Jørgen; De Fine Licht, Henrik H.; Macias, Angie M.; Berger, Matthew C.; Wickert, Kristen L.; Stauder, Cameron M.; Spahr, Ellie J.; Maust, Matthew D.; Metheny, Amy M.; Simon, Chris; Kritsky, Gene; Hodge, Kathie T.; Humber, Richard A.; Gullion, Terry; Short, Dylan P.G.; Kijimoto, Teiya; Mozgai, Dan; Arguedas, Nidia; Kasson, Matt T. (October 2019). "Psychoactive plant- and mushroom-associated alkaloids from two behavior modifying cicada pathogens". Fungal Ecology. 41: 147–164. bioRxiv 10.1101/375105. doi:10.1016/j.funeco.2019.06.002.