Sporobolomyces

Sporobolomyces
Ballistoconidia of Sporobolomyces salmonicolor
Scientific classification Edit this 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[2]
  • Amphiernia Grüss (1927)
  • Blastoderma B.Fisch. & Brebeck (1894)
  • Prosporobolomyces E.K.Novák & Zsolt (1961)
  • Sporidiobolus Nyland (1950)

Sporobolomyces is a genus of fungi in the subdivision Pucciniomycotina.[3] 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.[4] One species, Sporobolomyces salmonicolor, is known to cause disease in humans.[5][6]

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