title: Evidence of Subterranean Termite Feeding Deterrent Produced by Brown Rot Fungus Fibroporia radiculosa (Peck) Parmasto 1968 (Polyporales, Fomitopsidaceae).
abstract: We found that decayed wood stakes with no termite damage collected from a termite-infested field exhibited a deterrent effect against the termite Reticulitermes speratus, Kolbe, 1885. The effect was observed to be lost or reduced by drying. After identification, it was found that the decayed stakes were infected by brown rot fungus Fibroporia radiculosa (Peck) Parmasto, 1968. In a no-choice feeding test, wood blocks decayed by this fungus under laboratory condition deterred R. speratus feeding and n-hexane extract from the decayed stake and blocks induced termite mortality. These data provided an insight into the interaction between wood-rot fungi and wood-feeding termites.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-0872, Japan. nadia.kamaluddin@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Nadia Nuraniya
authors.initials: NN
authors.lastname: Kamaluddin
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-0872, Japan. nakagawa-izumi.a.gm@u.tsukuba.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Akiko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nakagawa-Izumi
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-0872, Japan. nishizawa@d-m-b.co.jp.
authors.forename: Shota
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nishizawa
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-0872, Japan. s1336502@u.tsukuba.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Ayuko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fukunaga
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-0872, Japan. sd9642@yahoo.co.jp.
authors.forename: Shuichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Doi
authors.affiliation: Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan. tsuyoshi@rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Tsuyoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yoshimura
authors.affiliation: School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Kochi University of Technology, Kami, Kochi 782-8502, Japan. horisawa.sakae@kochi-tech.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Sakae
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Horisawa
keywords: Reticulitermes speratus; decay fungus; no-choice feeding; wood