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Genus of fungi From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
Cunninghamella | |
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Cunninghamella echinulata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Mucoromycota |
Class: | Mucoromycetes |
Order: | Mucorales |
Family: | Cunninghamellaceae |
Genus: | Cunninghamella Matr. (1903) |
Type species | |
Cunninghamella africana Matr. 1903 | |
Species | |
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Synonyms[1] | |
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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]
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