Preserved ascomatal and other fungal structures on the remains of a ninth century Longobard abbess exhumed from a monastery in Pavia, Italy.

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Preserved ascomatal and other fungal structures on the remains of a ninth century Longobard abbess exhumed from a monastery in Pavia, Italy.

Mycopathologia - 1 Jan 2000

Caretta G, Piontelli E

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Auxarthron californiense, Mixotrichum aeruginosum, Oncocladium flavum and Chaetomium elatum were recognized on the basis of ascomatal structures on the remains of a Longobard abbess who died in the IX century A.D. These fungi, which had remained isolated in a crypt of the S. Felice Monastery of P...

Topics

Ascomycota
Bone and Bones
Catholicism
Chaetomium
Female
History, Medieval
Humans
Italy
Paleopathology
Phenotype
Soil Microbiology
Textiles

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