Friday, November 20, 2009

Isolation of Dung Fungi

This post is inspired by a recent article about scientists using an analysis of ancient dung fungi to study the environment during the time of the mammoths and their extinction. Dung fungi are relatively easy to observe, and even to isolate, so long as you don't have major qualms about working with dung.

The following references for isolation of dung fungi are either procedures or papers with clearly written Materials and Methods sections.

Isolation of Coprophilous Fungi (Word doc)

Isolation and Identification of Coprophillous Fungi

Diversity of Microfungi from animal excrement at Ko Saaesarn and Mu Ko Angthong National Park (PDF)

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