Sporobolomyces
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Sporobolomyces is a genus of fungi in the subdivision Pucciniomycotina.[2] Species produce both yeast states and hyphal states. The latter form teliospores from which auricularioid (tubular and laterally septate) basidia emerge, bearing basidiospores. Yeast colonies are salmon-pink to red. Sporobolomyces species occur worldwide and have been isolated (as yeasts) from a wide variety of substrates. They produce ballistoconidia that are bilaterally symmetrical, they have Coenzyme Q10 or Coenzyme Q10(H2) as their major ubiquinone, they lack xylose in whole-cell hydrolysates, and they cannot ferment sugars.[3] One species, Sporobolomyces salmonicolor, is known to cause disease in humans.[4][5]
Sporobolomyces | |
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Ballistoconidia of Sporobolomyces salmonicolor | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Microbotryomycetes |
Order: | Sporidiobolales |
Family: | Sporidiobolaceae |
Genus: | Sporobolomyces Kluyver & C.B.Niel (1924)[1] |
Type species | |
Sporobolomyces roseus Kluyver & C.B. Niel (1924) | |
Synonyms | |
Aessosporon Van der Walt (1970) |