Cunninghamella | |
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Cunninghamella echinulata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Mucoromycota |
Order: | Mucorales |
Family: | Cunninghamellaceae |
Genus: |
Cunninghamella Matr. (1903) |
Type species | |
Cunninghamella africana
Matr. 1903
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Species | |
See text | |
Synonyms [1] | |
Cunninghamella is a genus of fungi in the order Mucorales, and the family Cunninghamellaceae. [2] The genus was circumscribed by French mycologist Alphonse Louis Paul Matruchot in Ann. Mycol. Vol.1 on page 47 in 1903. [3]
The genus name of Cunninghamella is in honour of David Douglas Cunningham (1843–1914), who was a Scottish doctor and researcher who worked extensively in India on various aspects of public health and medicine. [4]
As of 2015 [update], Index Fungorum lists 13 valid species of Cunninghamella: [5]
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. [6] Many species are also capable of oxidizing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, a class of stable organic molecules that tends to persist in the environment and contains many known carcinogenic and mutagenic compounds. [7]
The presence of a cytochrome P450 has been demonstrated in C. bainieri. [8]
Cunninghamella | |
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Cunninghamella echinulata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Mucoromycota |
Order: | Mucorales |
Family: | Cunninghamellaceae |
Genus: |
Cunninghamella Matr. (1903) |
Type species | |
Cunninghamella africana
Matr. 1903
| |
Species | |
See text | |
Synonyms [1] | |
Cunninghamella is a genus of fungi in the order Mucorales, and the family Cunninghamellaceae. [2] The genus was circumscribed by French mycologist Alphonse Louis Paul Matruchot in Ann. Mycol. Vol.1 on page 47 in 1903. [3]
The genus name of Cunninghamella is in honour of David Douglas Cunningham (1843–1914), who was a Scottish doctor and researcher who worked extensively in India on various aspects of public health and medicine. [4]
As of 2015 [update], Index Fungorum lists 13 valid species of Cunninghamella: [5]
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. [6] Many species are also capable of oxidizing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, a class of stable organic molecules that tends to persist in the environment and contains many known carcinogenic and mutagenic compounds. [7]
The presence of a cytochrome P450 has been demonstrated in C. bainieri. [8]