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Mesh

Mesh consists of semi-permeable barrier made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material. Mesh is similar to web or net in that it has many attached or woven strands.-Types of mesh:...

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--- ascomycota

Ascomycota

The Ascomycota are a Division/Phylum of the kingdom Fungi, and subkingdom Dikarya. Its members are commonly known as the Sac fungi. They are the largest phylum of Fungi, with over 64,000 species...

--- eurotiales

Eurotiales

The Eurotiales are an order of sac fungi, also known as the green and blue molds. The order contains 3 families, 49 genera, and 928 species. It was circumscribed in 1980....

 --- emericella --- monascus

Monascus

Monascus is a genus of mold. Among the 24 known species of this genus, the red-pigmented Monascus purpureus is among the most important because of its use in the production of certain fermented foods in East Asia, particularly China and Japan....

 --- talaromyces --- hypocreales

Hypocreales

The Hypocreales are an order of fungi within the class Sordariomycetes, consisting of 7 families, 237 genera, and 2647 species.Species of Hypocreales are usually recognized by their brightly colored, perithecial ascomata, or spore-producing structures...

 --- claviceps --- cordyceps

Cordyceps

Cordyceps is a genus of ascomycete fungi that includes about 400 described species. All Cordyceps species are endoparasitoids, mainly on insects and other arthropods ; a few are parasitic on other fungi. The best known species of the genus is Cordyceps sinensis, first recorded as yartsa gunbu in...

 --- gibberella

Gibberella

Gibberella is a genus of fungus in the Nectriaceae family. In 1926, Japanese scientists observed that rice plants infected with Gibberella had abnormally long stems . A substance, gibberellin, was derived from this fungus...

 --- hypocrea

Hypocrea

Hypocrea is a genus of fungi in the Hypocreaceae family. The widespread genus is estimated to contain 171 species that grow on rotten wood, and are often associated with other fungi. Anamorphic genera associated with Hypocrea include Acremonium, Gliocladium, Trichoderma, and Verticillium...

 --- magnaporthe

Magnaporthe

Magnaporthe is a genus of ascomycete fungi. Several of the species are cereal pathogens. There are 5 species....

 --- onygenales

Onygenales

The Onygenales are an order of Ascomycetes, within the eurotiomycetes Ascomycetes.The Onygenales are important as emerging human pathogens because of the rising rates of immunosuppression due to live-organ transplant, HIV/AIDS, and autoimmune disorders such as Lupus erythematosus.-References:*C.J....

 --- arthrodermataceae

Arthrodermataceae

The Arthrodermataceae are a family of fungi containing three dermatophytes -- genera Epidermophyton, Microsporum and Trichophyton.-External links:**...

 --- phyllachorales

Phyllachorales

Phyllachorales is an order of sac fungi....

 --- pneumocystis --- pneumocystis carinii --- pneumocystis jiroveci --- pseudallescheria

Pseudallescheria

Pseudallescheria boydii is a species of fungus classified under Ascomycota. It is associated with some forms of eumycetoma and maduromycosis. The asexual form of this organism is named Scedosporium apiospermum....

 --- saccharomycetales

Saccharomycetales

Saccharomycetales is an order in the kingdom of fungi that comprises the budding yeasts and includes twelve families.-Genera incertae sedis:...

 --- kluyveromyces

Kluyveromyces

Kluyveromyces is a genus of ascomycetous yeasts in the family Saccharomycetaceae. Some of the species, such as K. marxianus, are the teleomorphs of Candida species....

 --- pichia

Pichia

Pichia is a genus of yeasts in the family Saccharomycetaceae with spherical, elliptical or oblong acuminate cells. Pichia is a teleomorph, and forms during sexual reproduction hat-shaped, hemispherical or round ascospores. The anamorphs of some Pichia species are Candida species...

 --- saccharomyces

Saccharomyces

Saccharomyces is a genus in the kingdom of fungi that includes many species of yeast. Saccharomyces is from Greek σάκχαρ and μύκης and means sugar fungus. Many members of this genus are considered very important in food production. One example is Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is used in making...

 --- saccharomyces cerevisiae

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a species of yeast. It is perhaps the most useful yeast, having been instrumental to baking and brewing since ancient times. It is believed that it was originally isolated from the skin of grapes...

 --- saccharomycopsis --- yarrowia

Yarrowia

Yarrowia is a fungal genus in the family Dipodascaceae. The genus is monotypic, containing the single species Yarrowia lipolytica, a yeast. It can use unusual carbon sources, such as hydrocarbons. This makes it of industrial interest....

 --- zygosaccharomyces

Zygosaccharomyces

Zygosaccharomyces is a genus of yeast in the family Saccharomycetaceae. It was first described under the Saccharomyces genus but in 1983 it was reclassified to its current name in the work by Barnett et al. The yeast has a long history as a spoilage yeast within the food industry. This is mainly...

 --- schizosaccharomyces

Schizosaccharomyces

Schizosaccharomyces is a genus of fission yeasts. The most well-studied species is S. pombe. At present four Schizosaccharomyces species have been described . Like the distantly related Saccharomyces cerevisiae, S. pombe is a significant model organism in the study of eukaryotic cell biology...

 --- sordariales

Sordariales

Sordariales are an order of fungi within the class Sordariomycetes , subphylum Pezizomycotina, phylum Ascomycota....

 --- chaetomium

Chaetomium

Chaetomium is a genus of fungi in the Chaetomiaceae family. It is a dematiaceous mold normally found in soil, air, and plant debris. According to the Dictionary of the Fungi , there are about 95 species in the widespread genus.As well as being a contaminant, Chaetomium spp. are also encountered as...

 --- neurospora

Neurospora

Neurospora is a genus of Ascomycete fungi. The genus name, meaning "nerve spore" refers to the characteristic striations on the spores that resemble axons....

 --- neurospora crassa

Neurospora crassa

Neurospora crassa is a type of red bread mold of the phylum Ascomycota. The genus name, meaning "nerve spore" refers to the characteristic striations on the spores. The first published account of this fungus was from an infestation of French bakeries in 1843. N...

 --- podospora

Podospora

Podospora is a genus of fungi within the Lasiosphaeriaceae family.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

 --- xylariales

Xylariales

Xylariales is an order of fungi within the class Sordariomycetes , subphylum Pezizomycotina, phylum Ascomycota. It is the only order of the subclass Xylariomycetidae....

--- basidiomycota

Basidiomycota

Basidiomycota is one of two large phyla that, together with the Ascomycota, comprise the subkingdom Dikarya within the Kingdom Fungi...

--- agaricales

Agaricales

The fungal order Agaricales, also known as gilled mushrooms , or euagarics, contains some of the most familiar types of mushrooms. The order has 33 extant families, 413 genera, and over 13000 described species, along with five extinct genera known only from the fossil record...

 --- agaricus

Agaricus

Agaricus is a large and important genus of mushrooms containing both edible and poisonous species, with possibly over 300 members worldwide...

 --- amanita

Amanita

The genus Amanita contains about 600 species of agarics including some of the most toxic known mushrooms found worldwide. This genus is responsible for approximately 95% of the fatalities resulting from mushroom poisoning, with the death cap accounting for about 50% on its own...

 --- coprinus

Coprinus

Coprinus is a small genus of mushrooms consisting of Coprinus comatus and several of its close relatives. Until 2001, Coprinus was a large genus consisting of all agaric species in which the lamellae autodigested to release their spores...

 --- grifola

Grifola

Grifola is a genus of fungi in the family Meripilaceae, which includes some edible fungi such as Grifola frondosa ; not to be confused with Laetiporus sulphureus, known among English speakers as Chicken of the woods....

 --- pleurotus

Pleurotus

Pleurotus is a genus of gilled mushrooms which includes one of the most widely eaten mushrooms, P. ostreatus. Species of Pleurotus may be called oyster, abalone, or tree mushrooms, and are some of the most commonly cultivated edible mushrooms in the world...

 --- schizophyllum

Schizophyllum

Schizophyllum is a genus of fungi in the family Schizophyllaceae. The widespread genus contains six wood-rotting species.-External links:*...

 --- polyporales

Polyporales

The Polyporales are an order of fungi in the class Agaricomycetes. The order includes some polypores as well as many corticioid fungi and a few agarics . Species within the order are saprotrophic, most of them wood-rotters...

 --- ganoderma

Ganoderma

Ganoderma is a genus of polypore mushrooms which grow on wood and include about 80 species, many from tropical regions. Because of their extensive use in traditional Asian medicines, and their potential in bioremediation, they are a very important genus economically. Ganoderma can be differentiated...

 --- reishi --- polyporaceae

Polyporaceae

The Polyporaceae are a family of bracket fungi belonging to the Basidiomycota. The flesh of their fruiting bodies varies from soft to very tough. Most members of this family have their hymenium in vertical pores on the underside of the caps, but some of them have gills The Polyporaceae are a...

 --- lentinula

Lentinula

Lentinula is a small genus of wood-inhabiting agarics. The neotropical species Lentinula boryana is the type species. However, the best-known species is L. edodes, the shiitake...

 --- shiitake mushrooms --- phanerochaete

Phanerochaete

Phanerochaete is a genus of fungi. Several of the species in this genus are plant pathogens.This genus includes "white-rot" fungi that are able to degrade lignin to carbon dioxide. This is achieved, in part, by lignin peroxidases and manganese peroxidases.These peroxidases are also able to mediate...

 --- ustilaginales

Ustilaginales

The Ustilaginales are an order of fungi within the class Ustilaginomycetes. The order contains 8 families, 49 genera, and 851 species.Ustinaginales is also known and classified as the "smut fungi"...

 --- ustilago

Ustilago

Ustilago is a genus of approximately 200 smut fungi parasitic on grasses.There is a large research community that works on Ustilago maydis including researchers at the University of Georgia, Philipps-Universität Marburg, University of British Columbia and others...

--- chytridiomycota

Chytridiomycota

Chytridiomycota is a division of the Fungi kingdom. The name is derived from the Greek chytridion, meaning "little pot", describing the structure containing unreleased spores. In older classifications, chytrids were placed in the Class Phycomycetes under the subdivision Myxomycophyta of the...

--- blastocladiella --- neocallimasticales --- neocallimastix

Neocallimastix

Neocallimastix is a genus of fungi within the Neocallimastigaceae family.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

 --- piromyces

Piromyces

Piromyces is a genus of fungi within the Neocallimastigaceae family.-External links:* at Index Fungorum...

--- fungal components

--- fruiting bodies, fungal --- spores, fungal --- mycelium

Mycelium

thumb|right|Fungal myceliaMycelium is the vegetative part of a fungus, consisting of a mass of branching, thread-like hyphae. The mass of hyphae is sometimes called shiro, especially within the fairy ring fungi. Fungal colonies composed of mycelia are found in soil and on or within many other...

 --- hyphae

--- microsporidia

Microsporidia

The microsporidia constitute a phylum of spore-forming unicellular parasites. They were once thought to be protists but are now known to be fungi. Loosely 1500 of the probably more than one million species are named now. Microsporidia are restricted to animal hosts, and all major groups of animals...

--- microsporea --- microsporida --- apansporoblastina --- encephalitozoon --- encephalitozoon cuniculi

Encephalitozoon cuniculi

Encephalitozoon cuniculi is a eukaryotic organism belonging to the phylum Microsporidia, in the kingdom Fungi. An obligate intracellular parasite, E. cuniculi occurs in laboratory mice and rabbits, monkeys, dogs, rats, birds, guinea pigs, and other mammals including humans. At various early times...

 --- enterocytozoon --- nosema

Nosema

For the genus in Lamiaceae, the mint family, see Nosema .Nosema is a genus of microsporidian parasites, including*Nosema algerae parasitising mosquitoes*Nosema antheraeae parasitising the Chinese oak silkworm Antheraea pernyi...

 --- vittaforma --- pansporablastina --- amblyospora --- glugea

Glugea

Glugea is a genus of microsporidian parasites, predominantly infecting fish.Species include* Glugea anomala* Glugea atherinae* Glugea capverdensis - a parasite of the fish Myctophum punctatum...

 --- loma

Loma

Loma may refer to:* Loma, Colorado, USA* Loma, Montana, USA* Loma, Nebraska, USA* Loma, North Dakota, USA* The Loma people, of Guinea and Liberia** The Loma language spoken by the Loma* Loma Mountains, a mountain range in Sierra Leone...

 --- pleistophora --- thelohania --- microsporidia, unclassified

--- mitosporic fungi

--- acremonium

Acremonium

Acremonium is a genus of Fungi in the Hypocreaceae family; it was previously known as "Cephalosporium".-Description:Acremonium species are usually slow growing and are initially compact and moist. Acremonium hyphae are fine and hyaline and produce mostly simple phialides. Their conidia are usually...

 --- alternaria

Alternaria

Alternaria is a genus of ascomycete fungi. Alternaria species are known as major plant pathogens. They are also common allergens in humans, growing indoors and causing hay fever or hypersensitivity reactions that sometimes lead to asthma...

 --- aspergillus

Aspergillus

Aspergillus is a genus consisting of several hundred mold species found in various climates worldwide. Aspergillus was first catalogued in 1729 by the Italian priest and biologist Pier Antonio Micheli...

 --- aspergillus flavus

Aspergillus flavus

Aspergillus flavus is a fungus. It is a common mold in the environment, and can cause storage problems in stored grains. It can also be a human pathogen, associated with aspergillosis of the lungs and sometimes causing corneal, otomycotic, and nasoorbital infections. Many strains produce...

 --- aspergillus fumigatus

Aspergillus fumigatus

Aspergillus fumigatus is a fungus of the genus Aspergillus, and is one of the most common Aspergillus species to cause disease in individuals with an immunodeficiency....

 --- aspergillus nidulans

Aspergillus nidulans

Aspergillus nidulans is one of many species of filamentous fungi in the phylum Ascomycota...

 --- aspergillus niger

Aspergillus niger

Aspergillus niger is a fungus and one of the most common species of the genus Aspergillus. It causes a disease called black mold on certain fruits and vegetables such as grapes, onions, and peanuts, and is a common contaminant of food...

 --- aspergillus ochraceus --- aspergillus oryzae

Aspergillus oryzae

Aspergillus oryzae is a filamentous fungus . It is used in Chinese and Japanese cuisine to ferment soybeans. It is also used to saccharify rice, other grains, and potatoes in the making of alcoholic beverages such as huangjiu, sake, and shōchū...

 --- blastomyces

Blastomyces

Blastomyces is a fungal genus responsible for the medical condition blastomycosis.The most well known species of the genus is Blastomyces dermatitidis. B. dermatitidis is a dimorphic fungal pathogen, found primarily in the Mid-West and Northern United States and Canada...

 --- botrytis

Botrytis

Botrytis may refer to:*Botrytis, the anamorphs of fungi of the genus Botryotinia**Botrytis cinerea, a mold important in wine making*Botrytis, the cauliflower cultivar group of Brassica oleracea...

 --- candida --- candida albicans

Candida albicans

Candida albicans is a diploid fungus that grows both as yeast and filamentous cells and a causal agent of opportunistic oral and genital infections in humans. Systemic fungal infections including those by C...

 --- candida glabrata

Candida glabrata

Candida glabrata is a haploid yeast of the genus Candida, previously known as Torulopsis glabrata. This species of yeast is non-dimorphic and no mating activity has been observed. Until recently, C. glabrata was thought to be a primarily non-pathogenic organism. However, with the ever increasing...

 --- candida tropicalis

Candida tropicalis

Candida tropicalis is a species of yeast in the genus Candida. It is easily recognized as a common medical yeast pathogen, existing as part of the normal human flora.-External links:*...

 --- chrysosporium

Chrysosporium

Chrysosporium is a type of hyaline hyphomycetes .Chrysosporium colonies are moderately fast growing, flat, white to tan to beige in colour; they often with a powdery or granular surface texture. Hyaline, one-celled are produced directly on vegetative hyphae by non-specialized conidiogenous cells...

 --- cladosporium

Cladosporium

Cladosporium is a genus of fungi including some of the most common indoor and outdoor molds. Species produce olive-green to brown or black colonies, and have dark-pigmented conidia that are formed in simple or branching chains....

 --- coccidioides

Coccidioides

Coccidioides is a genus of dimorphic ascomycete, cause of Coccidioidomycosis, also known as San Joaquin Valley Fever, an infectious fungal disease confined to the western hemisphere and endemic in American deserts...

 --- colletotrichum

Colletotrichum

Colletotrichum is a genus of fungi that are obligate symbionts to plants in the form of endophytes. Many of the species in this genus are plant pathogens, although some species may express a mutualistic life-style in non-disease hosts....

 --- cryptococcus

Cryptococcus

Cryptococcus is a genus of fungus. Species grow in culture as yeasts. The perfect forms or teleomorphs of Cryptococcus species are filamentous fungi in the genus Filobasidiella...

 --- cryptococcus neoformans

Cryptococcus neoformans

Cryptococcus neoformans is an encapsulated yeast that can live in both plants and animals. Its teleomorph is Filobasidiella neoformans, a filamentous fungus belonging to the class Tremellomycetes. It is often found in pigeon excrement....

 --- epidermophyton

Epidermophyton

Epidermophyton is a genus of fungus causing superficial and cutaneous mycoses, including E. floccosum, a cause of tinea corporis , tinea cruris , tinea pedis , and onychomycosis or tinea unguium, a fungal infection of the nail bed.-External links:**...

 --- exophiala

Exophiala

Exophiala is a genus of anamorphic fungi in the family Herpotrichiellaceae. The widespread genus contains 28 species. The genus was formally described by J.W...

 --- fusarium

Fusarium

Fusarium is a large genus of filamentous fungi widely distributed in soil and in association with plants. Most species are harmless saprobes, and are relatively abundant members of the soil microbial community. Some species produce mycotoxins in cereal crops that can affect human and animal health...

 --- geotrichum

Geotrichum

Geotrichum is a genus of fungi found worldwide in soil, water, air, and sewage, as well as in plants, cereals, and dairy products; it is also commonly found in normal human flora and is isolated from sputum and feces....

 --- gliocladium --- helminthosporium --- histoplasma

Histoplasma

Histoplasma is a genus of dimorphic fungi commonly found in bird and bat fecal material. Histoplasma contains a few species, including—H. capsulatum—the causative agent of histoplasmosis; and Histoplasma capsulatum var. farciminosum , causing epizootic lymphangitis in horses...

 --- madurella

Madurella

Madurella is a genus of fungus of the Hyphomycetes class.According to MeSH, it is responsible for maduromycosis.It has also been classified with the Mitosporic Ascomycota.It includes:* Madurella grisea* Madurella mycetomatis-External links:...

 --- malassezia --- microsporum

Microsporum

Microsporum is a genus of fungi that causes tinea capitis, tinea corpus, ringworm, and other dermatophytoses. Microsporum forms both macroconidia and microconidia on short conidiophores...

 --- paecilomyces

Paecilomyces

Paecilomyces is a genus of nematophagous fungus which kills harmful nematodes by pathogenesis, causing disease in the nematodes. Therefore the fungus can be used as a bio-nematicide to control nematodes by applying it to soil.-Species:...

 --- paracoccidioides --- penicillium

Penicillium

Penicillium is a genus of ascomycetous fungi of major importance in the natural environment as well as food and drug production. Members of the genus produce penicillin, a molecule that is used as an antibiotic, which kills or stops the growth of certain kinds of bacteria inside the body...

 --- penicillium chrysogenum

Penicillium chrysogenum

Penicillium chrysogenum is common in temperate and subtropical regions and can be found on salted food products, but it is mostly found in indoor environments, especially in damp or waterdamaged buildings. It was previously known as Penicillium notatum. It has rarely been reported as a cause of...

 --- phialophora

Phialophora

Phialophora is a form genus of fungus with short conidiophores, sometimes reduced to phialides; their conidia are unicellular. They may be parasites, or saprophitic.Genetic analysis of Phialophora shows that it is a paraphyletic grouping....

 --- rhizoctonia

Rhizoctonia

Rhizoctonia is a genus of anamorphic fungi in the order Cantharellales. Species do not produce spores, but are composed of hyphae and sclerotia and are asexual states of fungi in the genus Thanatephorus. Rhizoctonia species are saprotrophic, but are also facultative plant pathogens, causing...

 --- rhodotorula

Rhodotorula

Rhodotorula is a pigmented yeast, part of the Basidiomycota phylum, quite easily identifiable by distinctive orange/red colonies when grown on SDA . This distinctive colour is the result of pigments that the yeast creates to block out certain wavelengths of light that would otherwise be damaging...

 --- scedosporium --- sporothrix --- stachybotrys

Stachybotrys

Stachybotrys is a genus of molds, or asexually-reproducing, filamentous fungi. Closely related to the genus Memnoniella, most Stachybotrys species inhabit materials rich in cellulose. The genus has a widespread distribution, and contains about 50 species.The most infamous species, S. chartarum and S...

 --- trichoderma

Trichoderma

Trichoderma is a genus of fungi that is present in all soils, where they are the most prevalent culturable fungi. Many species in this genus can be characterized as opportunistic avirulent plant symbionts.-Species:...

 --- trichophyton

Trichophyton

The fungus genus Trichophyton is characterized by the development of both smooth-walled macro- and microconidia. Macroconidia are mostly borne laterally directly on the hyphae or on short pedicels, and are thin- or thick-walled, clavate to fusiform, and range from 4 to 8 by 8 to 50 um in size....

 --- trichosporon

Trichosporon

Trichosporon is a genus of anamorphic fungi in the family Trichosporonaceae. All species of Trichosporon are yeasts with no known teleomorphs . Most are typically isolated from soil, but several species occur as a natural part of the skin microbiota of humans and other animals...

 --- verticillium

Verticillium

Verticillium is a genus of fungi in the division Ascomycota, and are an anamorphic form of the Plectosphaerellaceae family. The genus used to include diverse groups comprising saprobes and parasites of higher plants, insects, nematodes, mollusc eggs and other fungi thus it can be seen that the...

--- yeasts

--- candida --- candida albicans

Candida albicans

Candida albicans is a diploid fungus that grows both as yeast and filamentous cells and a causal agent of opportunistic oral and genital infections in humans. Systemic fungal infections including those by C...

 --- candida glabrata

Candida glabrata

Candida glabrata is a haploid yeast of the genus Candida, previously known as Torulopsis glabrata. This species of yeast is non-dimorphic and no mating activity has been observed. Until recently, C. glabrata was thought to be a primarily non-pathogenic organism. However, with the ever increasing...

 --- candida tropicalis

Candida tropicalis

Candida tropicalis is a species of yeast in the genus Candida. It is easily recognized as a common medical yeast pathogen, existing as part of the normal human flora.-External links:*...

 --- cryptococcus

Cryptococcus

Cryptococcus is a genus of fungus. Species grow in culture as yeasts. The perfect forms or teleomorphs of Cryptococcus species are filamentous fungi in the genus Filobasidiella...

 --- cryptococcus neoformans

Cryptococcus neoformans

Cryptococcus neoformans is an encapsulated yeast that can live in both plants and animals. Its teleomorph is Filobasidiella neoformans, a filamentous fungus belonging to the class Tremellomycetes. It is often found in pigeon excrement....

 --- kluyveromyces

Kluyveromyces

Kluyveromyces is a genus of ascomycetous yeasts in the family Saccharomycetaceae. Some of the species, such as K. marxianus, are the teleomorphs of Candida species....

 --- malassezia --- pichia

Pichia

Pichia is a genus of yeasts in the family Saccharomycetaceae with spherical, elliptical or oblong acuminate cells. Pichia is a teleomorph, and forms during sexual reproduction hat-shaped, hemispherical or round ascospores. The anamorphs of some Pichia species are Candida species...

 --- rhodotorula

Rhodotorula

Rhodotorula is a pigmented yeast, part of the Basidiomycota phylum, quite easily identifiable by distinctive orange/red colonies when grown on SDA . This distinctive colour is the result of pigments that the yeast creates to block out certain wavelengths of light that would otherwise be damaging...

 --- saccharomyces

Saccharomyces

Saccharomyces is a genus in the kingdom of fungi that includes many species of yeast. Saccharomyces is from Greek σάκχαρ and μύκης and means sugar fungus. Many members of this genus are considered very important in food production. One example is Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is used in making...

 --- saccharomyces cerevisiae

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a species of yeast. It is perhaps the most useful yeast, having been instrumental to baking and brewing since ancient times. It is believed that it was originally isolated from the skin of grapes...

 --- saccharomycopsis --- schizosaccharomyces

Schizosaccharomyces

Schizosaccharomyces is a genus of fission yeasts. The most well-studied species is S. pombe. At present four Schizosaccharomyces species have been described . Like the distantly related Saccharomyces cerevisiae, S. pombe is a significant model organism in the study of eukaryotic cell biology...

 --- trichosporon

Trichosporon

Trichosporon is a genus of anamorphic fungi in the family Trichosporonaceae. All species of Trichosporon are yeasts with no known teleomorphs . Most are typically isolated from soil, but several species occur as a natural part of the skin microbiota of humans and other animals...

 --- yarrowia

Yarrowia

Yarrowia is a fungal genus in the family Dipodascaceae. The genus is monotypic, containing the single species Yarrowia lipolytica, a yeast. It can use unusual carbon sources, such as hydrocarbons. This makes it of industrial interest....

--- zygomycota

Zygomycota

Zygomycota, or zygote fungi, is a phylum of fungi. The name comes from zygosporangia, where resistant spherical spores are formed during sexual reproduction. Approximately 1060 species are known. They are mostly terrestrial in habitat, living in soil or on decaying plant or animal material...

--- entomophthorales

Entomophthorales

The Entomophthorales are an order of fungi that were previously classified in the class Zygomycetes. A new subphylum, Entomophthoromycotina, has recently been described for them.Most species of the Entomophthorales are pathogens of insects...

 --- conidiobolus

Conidiobolus

Conidiobolus is a genus of fungi.It is responsible for the condition conidiobolomycosis.Species include Conidiobolus coronatus and Conidiobolus incongruus....

 --- entomophthora --- mucorales

Mucorales

The Mucorales is the largest and best studied order of Zygomycete fungi. Members of this order are sometimes called pin molds.-Systematics:...

 --- absidia

Absidia

Absidia is a genus of fungi in the family Mucoraceae. The best known species is the pathogenic Absidia corymbifera, which causes zygomycosis, especially in the form of mycotic spontaneous abortion in cows. It can also cause mucormycosis in humans. It is an allergenic that could cause mucorosis in...

 --- cunninghamella

Cunninghamella

Cunninghamella is a genus of fungus in the Mucorales order, and the family Cunninghamellaceae. Members of this genus are often used in studies investigating the metabolism of drugs, because these species metabolize a wide range of drugs in manners similar to mammalian enzyme systems...

 --- mortierella

Mortierella

Mortierella is a genus of fungi in the Mortierellaceae family of the Zygomycota. The widespread genus contains about 85 species.-Reproduction:...

 --- mucor

Mucor

Mucor is a microbial genus of about 3000 species of moulds commonly found in soil, digestive systems, plant surfaces, and rotten vegetable matter.-Description:...

 --- phycomyces

Phycomyces

Phycomyces is a genus of fungus in the Zygomycota phylum. They are known for their strong phototropism response and helical growth of the sporangium. The best studied species is Phycomyces blakesleeanus.-External links:*....

 --- rhizomucor

Rhizomucor

Rhizomucor is a genus of fungi in the Mucoraceae family. The widespread genus contains six species. Rhizomucor parasiticus, the species originally selected as the type, is now considered synonymous with Rhizomucor pusillus....

 --- rhizopus

Rhizopus

Rhizopus is a genus of common saprobic fungi on plants and specialized parasites on animals. They are found on a wide variety of organic substrates, including "mature fruits and vegetables", faeces, jellies, syrups, leather, bread, peanuts and tobacco. Some Rhizopus species are opportunistic agents...