Biology:Backusella

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Short description: Genus of fungi


Backusella
Backusella sporangium.jpg
Sporangium (i.e. a cluster of sporangiospores surrounding a columella (obscured in image by sporangiospores) subtended by a hypha) viewed with bright-field light microscope
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Subdivision:
Mucoromycotina
Order:
Mucorales
Family:
Backusellaceae

K. Voigt & P.M. Kirk
Genus:
Backusella

Hesselt. & J.J. Ellis
Type species
Backusella circina
J.J. Ellis & Hesselt.
Species

See text

Backusella is the sole genus of zygote fungi in the family Backusellaceae, which is classified in the order Mucorales.[1] Members of this genus have been often isolated from plant litter, from locations around the world.[2]

Taxonomy

C. W. Hesseltine and J. J. Ellis recognised the uniqueness of a new species, B. circina, warranted its classification in a new genus; in 1969 they established Backusella, named in honour of Professor M. P. Backus. Since then, several species previously placed in the archetypal mucoralean genus Mucor were reassessed, found to be close relatives of B. circina, and combined into Backusella as additional Backusella species, while other species were discovered and classified outright as Backusella.[1] K. Voigt & P.M. Kirk established the family Backusellaceae to include Backusella in 2012, as they likewise recognised the uniqueness of the genus and the need to classify it within a distinct family.

Accepted species

The genus consists of the following 27 accepted species:[3][2][4][5][6][7]


  • Backusella australiensis Urquhart & Douch
  • Backusella azygospora T.R.L. Cordeiro et al.
  • Backusella chlamydospora Hyang B. Lee & T.T.T. Nguyen
  • Backusella circina J.J. Ellis & Hesselt. – generic type species
Synonym: Mucor pseudolamprosporus H. Nagan. & Hirahara
Synonym: B. johorensis L.S. Loh et al.
Basionym: M. dispersus Hagem
  • Backusella gigacellularis J.I. Souza et al.
  • Backusella granulispora L.S. Loh & Kuthub.
  • Backusella indica (Baijal & B.S. Mehrotra) Walther & de Hoog
Basionym: M. recurvus var. indicus [as 'indica' ] Baijal & B.S. Mehrotra
  • Backusella koreana Hyang B. Lee et al.
  • Backusella lamprospora (Lendn.) Benny & R.K. Benj. (1975)
Basionym: M. lamprosporus Lendn.
Synonym: B. circina var. lamprospora (Lendn.) R.Y. Zheng
Basionym: M. oblongiellipticus H. Nagan. et al. ex Pidopl. & Milko
  • Backusella oblongispora (Naumov) Walther & de Hoog
Basionym: M. oblongisporus Naumov
Basionym: M. recurvus E.E. Butler
Synonym: M. recurvus var. aspinosus L.S. Loh
Synonym: M. aromaticus Povah
  • Backusella tarrabulga Urquhart & Douch
  • Backusella thermophila Hyang B. Lee et al.
  • Backusella tuberculispora (Schipper 1978) G. Walther & de Hoog
Basionym: M. tuberculisporus Schipper 1978
Synonym: M. heterosporus sensu Baijal & Mehrotra; fide Schipper
  • Backusella variabilis (A.K. Sarbhoy) G. Walther & de Hoog
Basionym: M. variabilis A.K. Sarbhoy
Synonym: M. grandis Schipper & Samson
Synonym: B. grandis (Schipper & Samson) G. Walther & de Hoog


Former species

The following species was at one point considered by some authorities to be in the genus Backusella, although this is no longer so:[3]

  • Mucor ctenidius (Durrell & M. Fleming) Pidopl. & Milko ex Benny & R.K. Benj.
Basionym: Thamnidium ctenidium Durrell & M. Fleming
Synonym: B. ctenidia (Durrell & M. Fleming) Pidopl. & Milko ex Benny & R.K. Benj.

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Backusella". http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/SynSpecies.asp?RecordID=20067. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Urquhart, A.S.; Douch, J.K.; Heafield, T.A.; Buddie, A.G.; Idnurm, A. (2020). "Diversity of Backusella (Mucoromycotina) in south-eastern Australia revealed through polyphasic taxonomy". Persoonia - Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi. doi:10.3767/persoonia.2021.46.01. ISSN 0031-5850. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Backusella species". http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/Names.asp. 
  4. ↑ D.X. Lima; K. Voigt; C.A.F. De Souza; R.J.V. De Oliveira; C.M. Souza-Motta; A.L.C.M. De A. Santiago (2016). "Description of Backusella constricta sp. nov. (Mucorales, ex Zygomycota) from the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest, including a key to species of Backusella". Phytotaxa 289: 59–68. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.289.1.4. 
  5. ↑ J.I. de Souza; A.V. Marano; C.L.A. Pires-Zottarelli; F.S. Chambergo; R. Harakava (2014). "A new species of Backusella (Mucorales) from a Cerrado reserve in Southeast Brazil". Mycological Progress 13 (4): 975–980. doi:10.1007/s11557-014-0981-3. 
  6. ↑ D.N. Wanasinghe (2018). "Fungal diversity notes 709–839: taxonomic and phylogenetic contribution to fungal taxa with an emphasis on fungi on Rosaceae". Fungal Diversity 89: 1–236. doi:10.1007/s13225-018-0395-7. 
  7. ↑ Nguyen, Thuong T. T.; Voigt, Kerstin; Santiago, André Luiz Cabral Monteiro de Azevedo; Kirk, Paul M.; Lee, Hyang-Burm (2021). "Discovery of Novel Backusella (Backusellaceae, Mucorales) Isolated from Invertebrates and Toads in Cheongyang, Korea" (in en). Journal of Fungi 7 (7): 513. doi:10.3390/jof7070513. PMID 34199055. 

Further reading

  • Alves, Ana Lúcia Sabino de Melo; Freitas, Leslie Warren Silva de; Gurgel, Luciana Melo Sartori; Leitão, Joana D’Arc Alves; Cordeiro, Thalline Rafhaella Leite; Santiago, André Luiz Cabral Monteiro de Azevedo; Alves, Ana Lúcia Sabino de Melo; Freitas, Leslie Warren Silva de et al. (2021). "First occurrence of Backusella gigacellularis (Mucorales, Mucoromycota) in a fragment of an Upland Forest within the semi-arid region of northeastern Brazil" (in en). Rodriguésia 72. doi:10.1590/2175-7860202172005. ISSN 2175-7860. 
  • G. Walther; J. Powłowska; A. Alastruey-Izquierdo; M. Wrzosek (2013). "DNA barcoding in Mucorales: an inventory of biodiversity". Persoonia 30: 11–47. doi:10.3767/003158513X665070. PMID 24027345. 

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