Fig. 4

Fungal recovery from bat hibernacula and their interaction with Tp. a Soil samples from Aeolus Cave (AC) and Barton Hill Mine (BHM) were suspended in sterile water and then spread on culture media plates. Colonies recovered were identified by sequencing of the ITS and D1/D2 regions of the ribosomal gene followed by BLAST search. Pie charts represent the relative distributions of fungal phyla. Ascomycota dominated followed by Early Diverging Fungal Lineage, and Basidiomycota in both AC and BHM. b Interaction of Tp with other fungal species isolated from AC and BHM was carried out on SDA plate and the results of these interactions were assessed 18 days post-incubation at 10 °C. Upper panel denotes Tp-induced inhibition of Pd and Microascus species (Ms). Lower panel denotes fungal species not inhibited by Tp. Two such examples are Mortierella clonocystis (Mc) and Penicillium sopii (Ps)