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The young sporocysts had a wrinkled sporocyst wall, numerous papillae on the wall surface and the wall was granular and porous. In the itraconazole-treated culture, the walls of the young sporocysts were also wrinkled, but the characteristic papillae were replaced by larger lumps which were densely packed and coated the entire surface of the sporocyst wall. The mature sporocysts walls were smooth and possessed numerous papillae. In the itraconazole-treated culture, the walls of mature sporocysts walls were also smooth but possessed densely packed larger lumps instead of papillae. At higher magnification, each of the lumps were found to consist of numerous globules. No pores were observed as they were in the normal sporocyst wall.
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Liu, T.P. Effects of itraconazole on the sporocysts wall of the entomopathogenic fungi Ascosphaera apis as revealed by the scanning electron microscope. Mycopathologia 103, 75–80 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00441261
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