Trichocomaceae

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Trichocomaceae
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Eurotiomycetes
Order: Eurotiales
Family: Trichocomaceae
E.Fisch. (1897)
Type genus
Trichocoma
Jungh. (1838)
Genera [1]

The Trichocomaceae are a family of fungi in the order Eurotiales. Taxa are saprobes with aggressive colonization strategies, adaptable to extreme environmental conditions. Family members are cosmopolitan in distribution, ubiquitous in soil, and common associates of decaying plant and food material.

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Taxonomy

When first described, the family contained some of the most familiar fungi, such as Penicillium and Aspergillus . In 2011, it was proposed, that the family should be split into the three families Aspergillaceae, Thermoascaceae and Trichocomaceae. [2]

In an updated phylogeny of the Eurotiales published in 2020, there were 8 genera included in the Trichocomaceae. [1] Several more genera are connected to the Trichocomaceae in the Mycobank database, some of which await clarification of their standing. [3]

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Rasamsonia is a genus of fungi in the family Trichocomaceae, circumscribed in 2011 by mycologists Jos Houbraken and Jens Frisvad. It is characterized from other genera of the Trichocomaceae by the following combination of features: species are thermotolerant or thermophilic; their conidiophores have distinctly rough-walled stipes; conidia are olive brown; and ascomata, if present, have minimal covering. Rasamsonia phenotypically resembles Paecilomyces, in that both have thermotolerant species, produce olive-brown conidia, and form ascomata with no or scarce ascomatal covering; Rasamsonia, however, differs from Paecilomyces in having more regularly branched conidiophores with distinct rough-walled structures. The type species is Rasamsonia emersonii, a fungus formerly classified in the genus Talaromyces.

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Thermoascus is a genus of soil fungi in the family Trichocomaceae. Species in the genus are characterized by the production of heat-resistant ascospores. Thermoascus was circumscribed by German botanist Hugo Miehe in 1907.

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Aspergillus solicola is a species of fungus in the genus Aspergillus. It is from the Fumigati section. Several fungi from this section produce heat-resistant ascospores, and the isolates from this section are frequently obtained from locations where natural fires have previously occurred. The species was first described in 2014. It has been reported to produce aszonalenins, chromanols, tryptoquivalines, tryptoquivalones, and wortmannins.

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Circumdati is a subgenus of Aspergillus in the family Trichocomaceae.

References

  1. 1 2 Houbraken J, Kocsubé S, Visagie CM, Yulmaz N, Wang XC, Meijer M, Kraak B, Hubka V, Bensch K, Samson RA, Frisvad JC (2020). "Classification of Aspergillus, Penicillium, Talaromyces and related genera (Eurotiales): An overview of families, genera, subgenera, sections, series and species". Studies in Mycology. 95: 5–169. doi: 10.1016/j.simyco.2020.05.002 . PMC   7426331 . PMID   32855739. S2CID   221320935.
  2. ↑ Houbraken, J.; Samson, R. A. (2011). "Phylogeny of Penicillium and the segregation of Trichocomaceae into three families". Studies in Mycology. 70 (1): 1–51. doi:10.3114/sim.2011.70.01. PMC   3233907 . PMID   22308045.
  3. ↑ Page Trichocomaceae on "Mycobank". Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute . Retrieved 2023-09-20.


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