Sordariaceae

Sordariaceae
Sordaria fimicola perithecium
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Sordariomycetes
Order: Sordariales
Family: Sordariaceae
G. Winter
Type genus
Sordaria
Ces. & De Not.
Genera

Cainiella
Copromyces
Effetia – uncertain position
Gelasinospora
Guilliermondia – uncertain position
Neurospora
Pseudoneurospora
Sordaria
Stellatospora

The Sordariaceae are a family of perithecial fungi within the Sordariales order.[1]

The family includes the important model organism Neurospora crassa that is used in genetic research. Members of the family include the red bread molds in the genus Neurospora, including Neurospora sitophila, which is used to produce the fermented food oncom. Other species in the family inhabit herbivore dung or plant parts.[2]

  1. ^ Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. 13. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany: 1–58.
  2. ^ C.J. Alexopolous, Charles W. Mims, M. Blackwell, Introductory Mycology, 4th ed. (John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken NJ, 2004) ISBN 0-471-52229-5