Biology:Neocallimastix
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Short description: Genus of fungi
| Neocallimastix | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Neocallimastigomycota |
| Class: | Neocallimastigomycetes |
| Order: | Neocallimastigales |
| Family: | Neocallimastigaceae |
| Genus: | Neocallimastix Vavra & Joyon ex I.B.Heath (1983)[1] |
| Type species | |
| Neocallimastix frontalis (R.A.Braune) Vavra & Joyon ex I.B.Heath (1983)
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Neocallimastix is a genus of obligately anaerobic rumen fungi in the family Neocallimastigaceae.[4] A specialised group of chytrids grow in the rumen of herbivorous animals, where they degrade cellulose and thus play a primary role in the complex microbial ecology of the rumen.
References
- ↑ "Assignment of the rumen anaerobe Neocallimastix frontalis to the Spizellomycetales (Chytridiomycetes) on the basis of its polyflagellate zoospore ultrastructure". Canadian Journal of Botany 61 (1): 295–307. 1983. doi:10.1139/b83-033.
- ↑ "Neocallimastix". http://www.mycobank.org/Biolomics.aspx?Table=Mycobank&Rec=96646&Fields=All.
- ↑ "Neocallimastix". http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/Names.asp.
- ↑ The Fungi. Academic Press. 1994. pp. 33–34. ISBN 0-12-159960-4.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q6992030 entry
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