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First carnivorous fungus from Santonian Taimyr amber

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2023

Maryna M. SUKHOMLYN Open the ORCID record for Maryna M. SUKHOMLYN [Opens in a new window]  and
Evgeny E. PERKOVSKY Open the ORCID record for Evgeny E. PERKOVSKY [Opens in a new window]
Maryna M. SUKHOMLYN*
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Institute for Evolutionary Ecology of NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, 03143, Ukraine.
Evgeny E. PERKOVSKY
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Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, 01030, Ukraine. Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
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*Corresponding author. E-mail: suhmary@ukr.net
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Abstract

Mycelium from the Yantardakh Lagerstätte (Santonian of Taimyr) is reported. Its hyphae are arranged mostly parallel, weakly branched and septated. The clamp connections indicate the Basidiomycota affinity. Two types of outgrowths are formed on the mycelium, located perpendicular to the parent hypha: the former rather long and common; and the latter are short peg-shaped, formed with a lower frequency. Arthroconidia and large spherical structures, looking like exudate drops are observed upon hyphae. Hyphae rings similar to the trapping loops of extant Basidiomycota have been found. Altogether, these rings, numerous drops and peg-like hyphal outgrowths may be interpreted as this mycelium belongs to nematophagous fungus of Agaricomycetes. Thus, this is the first finding of mycelium putatively nematophagous Basidiomycota from the Cretaceous of North Asia, which also implies the presence of nematodes in the Taimyr amber forest.

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Basidiomycotaclamp connectionsCretaceousmyceliumnematophagous fungi

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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 114 , Special Issue 1-2: 3rd Palaeontological Virtual Congress , July 2023 , pp. 183 - 188
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Taimyr amber is known from many localities (Rasnitsyn et al. Reference Rasnitsyn, Bashkuev, Kopylov, Lukashevich, Ponomarenko, Popov, Rasnitsyn, Ryzhkova, Sidorchuk, Sukatsheva and & Vorontsov2016; Perkovsky & Vasilenko Reference Perkovsky and Vasilenko2019) ranging in age from late Albian to Santonian (Perkovsky & Wegierek 2017; Gumovsky et al. Reference Gumovsky, Perkovsky and Rasnitsyn2018). History and recent results in the Taimyr amber studies were summarised by Perkovsky & Vasilenko (Reference Perkovsky and Vasilenko2019) added by Azar & Maksoud (Reference Azar and Maksoud2020), Kolibáč & Perkovsky (Reference Kolibáč and Perkovsky2020), Fedotova & Perkovsky (Reference Fedotova and Perkovsky2020), Hakim et al. (Reference Hakim, Huang and Azar2021), Melnitsky & Ivanov (Reference Melnitsky and Ivanov2021), Giłka et al. (Reference Giłka, Zakrzewska, Lukashevich, Vorontsov, Soszyńska-Maj, Skibińska and Cranston2022), Ogłaza et al. (Reference Ogłaza, Perkovsky and Wegierek2022a, Reference Ogłaza, Perkovsky and Wegierek2022b) and Perkovsky (Reference Perkovsky2022).

Several plant fossils were observed in the amber bearing sediments. These include spores attributed to various leptosporangiate ferns, peat mosses as well as pollen of several gymnosperms and angiosperms (Saks et al. Reference Saks, Gramberg, Ronkina and Aplonova1959). Golovneva (Reference Golovneva2012) reported leaf fragments of the gymnosperm Taxodium sp. and the angiosperm Trochodendroides sp. in formations above and below the Kheta Formation. Furthermore, fossils of Sequoia tenuifolia Schmalhausen Reference Schmalhausen1890 and the large-leaved Platanaceae Pseudoprotophyllum hatangaense Abramova Reference Abramova and Bondarev1983 were observed. The single plant inclusion described from Taimyr amber was bryophyte Taimyrobryum martynoviorum Ignatov et al. Reference Ignatov, Heinrichs, Schäfer-Verwimp and Perkovsky2016.

Cretaceous mycetophages are rather numerous in tropical burmite, suggesting a high diversity of agaricomycetes in Kachin amber forest (Blagoderov & Grimaldi Reference Blagoderov and Grimaldi2004; Cai et al. Reference Cai, Leschen, Hibbett, Xia and Huang2017; Peris Reference Peris2020 and references therein). Unlike these, much more northern Taimyr amber inclusions are poorer in mycetophages, both in number and taxonomic diversity (Blagoderov & Grimaldi Reference Blagoderov and Grimaldi2004; Makarov & Perkovsky Reference Makarov and Perkovsky2020). This paper describes the first fungus from the Taimyr amber, except a supposed fungus upon beetle Paleobiphyllus ponomarenkoi Makarov & Perkovsky, Reference Makarov and Perkovsky2020 (Biphyllidae) collected in the same Lagerstätte in 2012 (Makarov & Perkovsky Reference Makarov and Perkovsky2020, Fig. 1a).

Figure 1

Mycelium of the Taimyr amber sample. (a–e) Fungal hyphae. (f, g) Drop-shaped formations. Scale bars: (a–d) 100 μm; (e–g) 50 μm.

1. Materials and methods

Amber sample was collected in Yantardakh in 1970 by the expedition of V.V. Zherikhin and I.D. Sukacheva. Yantardakh Lagerstätte is situated in Krasnoyarsk Krai: Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District: Taimyr Peninsula: right bank of the Maimecha River, 3 km upstream of its confluence with the Kheta River (a left tributary of Khatanga River), Yantardakh Hill; Kheta Formation, Santonian, Upper Cretaceous.

The sample with the mycelium was collected in 1970, and is kept in the Borissiak Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (PIN) with inventory number PIN 3130/222. For microscopy, a sample of 4 × 3.2 × 2 mm was prepared. According to Alexander Rasnitsyn (personal communication, 2023), the sample was manually processed with a safety razor blade and polished on a woolen cloth. After that, it was immersed in a Canadian balsam melt on a glass slide and covered with a cover glass. The micrographs were taken by compound light microscope Olympus CX41 equipped with digital camera Infinity 2–2 (2080 × 1536 px) and processed by software LAS V3.8 and Primo Star microscope (Carl Zeiss, Germany) equipped with a Canon A 300 camera and processed with software AxioVision 4.7.

2. Results

Mycelium was found deeply embedded in an amber piece (Fig. 1). Fruit bodies are absent. Mycelium is relatively unbranched and its hyphae, 2–4 μm wide, are arranged mostly in one direction, generally parallel to each other (Fig. 1а, b). Hyphae are branched at acute angle, and branches keep direction of the frontal expansion of the mycelium, sometimes forming bundles (Fig. 1с, d, e). Drop-like spherical bodies are scattered upon the mycelium, reminiscent of the liquid and oil exudate in fungi (Fig. 1f, g). Drop-like spherical bodies are in average in 12.5 μm in diameter, while some are up to 15 μm.

Septae are well-seen in several hyphae (Fig. 2a, b). Clamps are regularly present in mycelium (Fig. 2b, c, d). Clamps are of medallion type, where there is an obvious space between anastomosis and hypha. Сlamps are 6–7 μm broad and up to 12 μm long. Two types of offshoots were found in the Taimyr amber: short and long. Both are perpendicularly arranged to the maternal hypha. The long ones are rather numerous (Fig. 2e); they are mostly 35 μm long, the longest being 45 μm long. Most of the long outgrowths extend from the clamps. Similar outgrowths on clamps have modern species Amylostereum areolatum Boidin Reference Boidin1958 (Baxter et al. Reference Baxter, Rong and Schutte1995). The short off springs are rarer; they are peg-like, 12–16 μm long (Fig. 2f). Arthroconidia are seen in the Taimyrian mycelium as well (Fig. 2g–j).

Figure 2

Mycelium of the Taimyr amber sample. (a, b) Septa on hyphae. (c, d) Clamp connections. (e, f) Outgrowths on the mycelium. (g–j) Arthroconidia. (k) Annular loops (arrowed). Scale bars: (a, b) 10 μm; (c, d)20 μm; (e) 50 μm; (f–j) 20 μm; (k) 20 μm.

Ring-like structures were seen among the mycelium hyphae. They are quite similar to the trapping loops of extant basidiomycetes (Fig. 2k). Inner diameter of this structure can reach 24 μm, the outer one 33 μm.

3. Discussion

Mycelium fragments are a rather common part of palinospectra. Their identification even at the level of the largest groups of fungi is impossible due to the almost complete absence of any morphological differences (Maslova et al. Reference Maslova, Tobias and Kodrul2021). However, the presence of septae and clamp connections in the Taimyr mycelium definitely indicates its belonging to Basidiomycota.

Mycelium clamps were found in late Albian Álava amber from Spain (Ascaso et al. Reference Ascaso, Wierzchos, Speranza, Gutiérrez, González, de los Ríos and Alonso2005). In these specimens clamp connections were found in non-septate hyphae.

Other Cretaceous Basidiomycota have been reported from many localities. Archaeomarasmius leggetti Hibbett et al. Reference Hibbett, Grimaldi and Donoghue1997 was found in Turonian New Jersey amber, 90–94 Mya. Many basidiomycetes were described from the Cenomanian Kachin amber (Poinar & Brown Reference Poinar and Brown2003; Poinar et al. Reference Poinar, da Silva and Baseia2014; Poinar Reference Poinar2016). More recently, mycelium with clasps’ connections has been discovered from the Cretaceous of Northeast China (Tian et al. Reference Tian, Wang, Zheng and Shu2020).

The combined presence of the putative trapping loops, clavate hyphae ends with drops, peg-like offshoots, which all are indicative for nematophagous fungi, suppose that the Taimyrian mycelium also belong to nematophagous fungi.

Nematophagous fungi are known in fossil state.

There is a certain similarity between our Taimyrian specimen and one mid-Cretaceous fungus, Palaeodikaryomyces baueri Dörfelt & Schäfer Reference Dörfelt and Schäfer1998. It was collected in Cenomanian (~99–93 Mya) Schliersee amber (Dörfelt & Schäfer Reference Dörfelt and Schäfer1998). Taimyrian mycelium however, unlike P. baueri, has obvious medallion-like clamps and septate hyphae.

We compared the similarity of the Taimyrian specimen with the extant nematophagous fungi from various groups. Today, nematophagous fungi belong to various taxonomic groups: Chytridiomycota; Ascomycota; Basidiomycota; Zoopagomycotina; and Mucorоmycotina. About 200 nematophagous species of fungi are known in extant fauna according to Yang et al. (Reference Yang, Yang, An and Liu2007), although later publications increased this number to 700 species and also report this in species of the order Oomycota (Li et al. Reference Li, Zou, Xu, Ji, Niu, Yang, Huang and Zhang2015; de Soares et al. Reference de Soares, Sufiate and Queiroz2018). The ability of Basidiomycetes to consume nematodes has been reported by Drechsler (Reference Drechsler1941).

The basidium fungi found to date that are capable of trapping nematodes or releasing substances that kill nematodes number more than 200 species and belong to three classes: Agaricomycetes; Dacrinomycetes; and Tremellomycetes (see Online supplementary material available at https://www.ieenas.org/site/assets/files/3971/sukhomlyn_supplemetary_table.docx) – the former class including the main species diversity. Nematophagous fungi of Dacrinomycetes do not develop clamps. Species identity of a nematophagous fungus from Tremellomycetes remains unknown, thus a comparison with it cannot be provided.

The classification of the nematophagous species is based on the capturing mechanisms and includes the following groups: (a) fungi, using adhesive and mechanical hyphal traps; (b) endoparasitic fungi, destroying nematodes by means of spores; and (c) fungi that are parasites of eggs and females (Barron & Thorn Reference Barron and Thorn1987; Dackman et al. Reference Dackman, Jansson, Nordbring–Hertz, Stotzky and Bollag1992; Askary Reference Askary1996; Jansson et al. Reference Jansson, Tunlid, Nordbring-Hertz and Anke1997; Liu et al. Reference Liu, Xiang and Che2009; Swe et al. Reference Swe, Li, Zhang, Pointing, Jeewon and Hyde2011; Devi Reference Devi2018). Recently two additional groups were discovered for: (d) toxin-producing fungi, immobilising nematodes before invading their bodies; and (e) fungi that produce structures to damage the nematode cuticle mechanically (Siddiqui & Mahmood Reference Siddiqui and Mahmood1996; Kerry Reference Kerry2000; Lopez-Llorca & Jansson Reference Lopez-Llorca, Jansson, Robson, West and Gadd2006; Liu et al. Reference Liu, Xiang and Che2009). Basidiomycetes include species of all the above mentioned groups.

The Taimyrian mycelium unlikely belong to the groups b and e, as both develop quite specific structures for nematode capturing, which are not observed in Taimyrian specimen. Group e has attacking structure, such as spiny propagulae, for example, in Coprinus comatus Persoon, Reference Persoon1797 (Luo et al. Reference Luo, Mo, Huang, Li and Zhang2004, Reference Luo, Liu, Fang, Li, Tang and Zhang2007); acanthocysts, for example, in Stropharia rugosoannulata Murrill Reference Murrill1922 (Luo et al. Reference Luo, Li, Li, Pan and Zhang2006); and stephanocysts, for example, in Hyphoderma rude Hjortstam & Ryvarden Reference Hjortstam and Ryvarden1980 (=Peniophorella rude Larsson, Reference Larsson2007) (Liou & Tzean Reference Liou and Tzean1992; Barron Reference Barron2003). Endoparasitic fungi (group b) are also rather rare among basidial fungi: for example, species of Hohenbuehelia Schulzer et al. Reference Schulzer, Kanitz and Knapp1866 (anamorpha Nematoctonus Drechsler Reference Drechsler1949), the trapping apparatus of which are represented by adhesive outgrowths such as an hourglass and adhesive spores (Karakas Reference Karakas2020).

Our specimen is especially similar to the xylotrophous toxin-producing nematophagous representatives of Agaricomycetes.

Most of the specimens belong to the family Pleurotaceae: genera Hohenbuehelia (with anamorpha Nematoctonus) and Pleurotus Kummer Reference Kummer1871 (Thorn et al. Reference Thorn, Moncalvo, Reddy and Vilgalys2000; Kirk et al. Reference Kirk, Cannon, Minter and Stalpers2008). Carnivorous species of the genus Nematoctonus capture many nematodes by means of hypha projections of hourglass shape, whereas species of Pleurotus produce non-adhesive small drops containing toxic compounds from small peg-like offsprings on hyphae (Kwok et al. Reference Kwok, Plattner, Weisleder and Wicklow1992; Koziak et al. Reference Koziak, Cheng and Thorn2007). Our sample is one of those which have drop-like structures on their mycelium, but does not form hourglass-shaped structures, characteristic for Hohenbuehelia.

Secretory structures, similar to that in Pleurotus were found in hyphae of Agaricales: Conocybe lactea Métrod Reference Métrod1940 (Hutchison et al. Reference Hutchison, Madzia and Barron1996) and Flammulina velutipes Singer Reference Singer1951 (Ferreira et al. Reference Ferreira, Carreira, Braga and Soares2019). Their way to attack nematodes is similar to Pleurotus (Hutchison et al. Reference Hutchison, Madzia and Barron1996). However, in Conocybe lactea the stalk of the drop-producing glands is high and broadened to the stalk base (Hutchison et al. Reference Hutchison, Madzia and Barron1996).

More recently, nematophagous activity has been found in a number of species of various genera from the same order (Thorn & Barron Reference Thorn and Barron1984; Mamiya et al. Reference Mamiya, Hiratsuka and Murata2005; Ishizaki et al. Reference Ishizaki, Nomura and Watanabe2015; Balaeș & Tănase Reference Balaeș and Tănase2016; de Soares et al. Reference de Soares, Nakajima, Sufiate, Satiro, Gomes, Froes, Sena, Braga and Queiroz2019; Hahn et al. Reference Hahn, De Mio, Kuhn and Duarte2019). Fungi of other orders were found to have a similar ability (Mamiya et al. Reference Mamiya, Hiratsuka and Murata2005, Balaeș & Tănase Reference Balaeș and Tănase2016). In these nematophagous fungi the hyphae grow upon the nematode body, leading with time to the degrading of its body, both cuticle and internal structures. Dense hyphae assemblages in proximity to nematodes possess abundant chlamydospores and conidiae. Thus, the mechanism of nematode damage in these species differs from that in Pleurotus (Mamiya et al. Reference Mamiya, Hiratsuka and Murata2005; Balaeș & Tănase Reference Balaeș and Tănase2016).

There is the only report of the secretory cells that immobilise nematodes among non-agaricoid, polyporoid fungi, that causes white rot: Climacodon septentrionalis Karsten Reference Karsten1881b of the family Meruliaceae (Tanney & Hutchison Reference Tanney and Hutchison2012; de Soares et al. Reference de Soares, Sufiate and Queiroz2018). However these secretory cells in C. septentrionalis differ markedly from secretory cells of agaricoid fungi, described by Hutchison et al. (Reference Hutchison, Madzia and Barron1996) for cultures of Panaeolina foenisecii Maire Reference Maire1933 and C. lactea, and also in cultures described by Barron & Thorn (Reference Barron and Thorn1987) and Pleurotus ostreatus Kummer 1871. The secretory structures of C. septentrionalis are wide, and produced on tall, septate, single-celled stalks that branched (Tanney & Hutchison Reference Tanney and Hutchison2012). Droplets formed by species of the order Agaricales are much smaller than the drops of C. septentrionalis.

Some aphyllophoroid fungi are similar to our Taimyrian specimen. They have clamps, arthroconidia and oil drops in mycelium (Stalpers Reference Stalpers1978). However, most of them have one or two of these three characters, or sometimes they have additional features that are absent in our specimen (e.g., chlamydospores, reindeer-horn-shaped hyphae, etc.).

In our specimen, drops and the putative trapping loops were observed.

The arthroconidia (oidia) found on the mycelium of Taimyr amber do not make it possible to unambiguously determine the fungus even to the familiar level, because such asexual spores were noted in many representatives of basidiomycetes. Reshetnikov (Reference Reshetnikov1991) listed as many as 151 species of Agaricales and 73 species of aphyllophoroid basidiomycetes known to develop arthroconidia. Among them are the species, potentially similar to our sample: Pleurotus cystidiosus Miller Reference Miller1969 (Buchalo Reference Buchalo1988) and mentioned above Flammulina velutipes (Reshetnikov Reference Reshetnikov1991; Borhani et al. Reference Borhani, Badalyan, Garibyan, Mosazadeh and Yasari2011); and many aphilophoroid fungi, including the earlier mentioned species of the genus Amylostereum Boidin Reference Boidin1958.

Whereas Taimyr amber has a gymnosperm origin, the restriction to the fungi that inhabitat gymnosperms allows us to confine the comparison for fungi living on the trees of this group and having ability for capturing nematodes from conifer forests. Mamiya et al. (Reference Mamiya, Hiratsuka and Murata2005) reported a number of fungi that are able capture pinewood nematodes being cultuvated on agar medium in Petri dishes: Pleurotus pulmonarius Quélet Reference Quélet1872; Pleurotus eryngii Quélet Reference Quélet1872; Lentinula edodes Pegler Reference Pegler1975; Neolentinus lepideus Redhead & Ginns Reference Redhead and Ginns1985; Pholiota nameko Imai Reference Imai1933; Omphalotus guepiniformis Neda Reference Neda2004; Trichaptum abietinum Ryvarden Reference Ryvarden1972; and Cryptoporus volvatus Shear Reference Shear1902.

It should be noted that many nematophagous basidial fungi associated with conifers have many features characteristic of the studied sample: clamp connections; outgrowths on clamp connections; and the presence of arthroconidia (for example, Bjerkandera adusta Karsten Reference Karsten1879, Pycnoporus cinnabarinus Karsten Reference Karsten1881a, Amylostereum areolatum whose mycelial features are described by Stalpers (Reference Stalpers1978)). The fact that it is a parasite of exclusively coniferous trees can also speak in favour of the latter. Extant species of Amylostereum usually develop cystidiae, which were not noticed in our specimen. However, lack of cystidiae could be because this mycelium was fossilised when quite young, before forming cystidiae that appear usually after several weeks of growth. An alternative explanation could be that an ancient relative of Amylostereum simply lacks cystidiae.

4. Conclusion

The representative of the Basidiomycota is found in the Taimyr amber for the first time. Such taxonomic attribution is based on the presence of mycelium septae and clamp connections. Hyphal rings similar to trapping loops in combinations with peg-like outgrowths and drops of the putative exsudate support a hypothesis that this mycelium belongs to the wood-destroying nematophagous species.

Altogether, these rings, numerous drops and peg-like hyphal outgrowths may be interpreted as this mycelium belongs to nematophagous fungus of Agaricomycetes. Furthermore, it is the first indication of the presence of nematodes in the Taimyr amber forest.

Summing up, the described Taimyrian mycelium of the Cretaceous age likely belongs to one of the orders of Agaricomycetes. Barron (Reference Barron, Carroll and Wicklow1992) proposed that nematophagous fungi evolved from celluloselitic or ligninlitic fungi in response to the deficiency of nourishments in nitrogen-poor environments. In such conditions with the high carbon content, the nematode nitrogen may be an important addition. It was wood-destroying fungi that we considered among the most similar to the found sample. However, it is still difficult to give an unambiguous answer regarding whether a sample belongs to a certain family or even order. Nonetheless, this finding may help to estimate the origin of carnivority in Basidiomycota, where the diversity of trapping structures is much more limited as compared to Ascomycota.

This is the first Cretaceous record of the carnivorous Basidiomycota in the warm-temperate region (Perkovsky et al. Reference Perkovsky, Sukhomlin and Zelenkov2018) and the first indirect evidence of the nematode presence in the Taimyr amber forest. The results presented by us will be useful for tracing the evolution of nematophagous fungi and their trapping devices for inhibiting nematodes and are a contribution to documenting the stages of the formation of the Earth's mycobiota as a special evolutionary group of organisms, providing important evidence in favour of not only individual groups of fungi that appeared at the early stages of historical development, but also the co-evolutionary relationships of fungi and representatives of other Kingdoms of living beings (Maslova et al. Reference Maslova, Tobias and Kodrul2021).

5. Supplementary material

Supplementary material is available online at https://www.ieenas.org/site/assets/files/3971/sukhomlyn_supplemetary_table.docx.

6. Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Professor Michail S. Ignatov for kind donation of the photographs as well as for his keen editorial eye and assistance in the preparation and design of drawings; Dr Dmitry V. Vasilenko for his helpful comments and suggestions and for his generous and constructive reviews; and two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments.

7. Financial support

The second author was supported by a Scholars at Risk Ukraine fellowship at the University of Copenhagen.

8. Competing interests

None.

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Figure 1 Mycelium of the Taimyr amber sample. (a–e) Fungal hyphae. (f, g) Drop-shaped formations. Scale bars: (a–d) 100 μm; (e–g) 50 μm.

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Figure 2 Mycelium of the Taimyr amber sample. (a, b) Septa on hyphae. (c, d) Clamp connections. (e, f) Outgrowths on the mycelium. (g–j) Arthroconidia. (k) Annular loops (arrowed). Scale bars: (a, b) 10 μm; (c, d)20 μm; (e) 50 μm; (f–j) 20 μm; (k) 20 μm.