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Miss MOUNCE,1 working under my direction, found that Coprinus sterquilinus, C. stercorarius (a sclerotium-producing species), and C. narcoticus are all homothallic. All the spores in each of these species are sexually of one kind, and each spore gives rise to a mycelium which becomes diploid and fruits perfectly without fusion with any other mycelium.
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Irene Mounce : (1) “Homothallism and the production of fruit-bodies by monosporous mycelia in the genus Coprinus,” Trans. Brit. Mycolog. Soc., viii., 1921, pp. 198–217. Also (2) “Homothallism and heterothallism in the genus Coprinus,” ibid. 1922, pp. 256–269. An account of the experiments made with Coprinus narcoticus has not yet been published.
Hans Kniep : (1) “Über morphologische und physiologische Geschlechts-differenzierung,” Verhandl. der physikal.—med. Gesellschaft zu Würzburg, xlvi., 1919; (2) “Über Geschlechtsbestimmung und Reduktionsteilung,” ibid. xlvii., 1922; (3)"Über erbliche Änderungen von Geschlechtsfactoren bei Pilzen,” Zeitsch. Indukt. Abstamm. u. Vererb., xxx., 1923.
W. F. Hanna, “The Problem fo Sex in Coprinous lagopus.” To Appear shortly in the Annals of Botany.
R. Vandendries, “Contribution nouvelle à l'étude de la sexualité des Basidiomycètes,” La Cellule, xxxv., 1924.
D. Newton, paper shortly to be sent to the press.
Hans Kniep, “Über Geschlechtsbestimmung und Reduktionsteilung,” Verhand. physikal.—med. Gesellschaft zu Würzburg, xlvii., 1922, pp. 1–29.
The method is described in Hanna's paper on Coprinus lagopus. It was devised and perfected by Miss Dorothy Newton, W. F. Hanna, and the writer, working conjointly.
W. F. Hanna, “The Dry-Needle method of making monosporous cultures of Hymenomycetes and other fungi,” Annals of Botany, xxxviii., October 1924.
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BULLER, A. Experiments on Sex in Mushrooms and Toadstools. Nature 114, 826 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114826a0
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