Colacogloea is a genus of fungi belonging to the class Microbotryomycetes. Most species in the genus are known only from their yeast states. Where known, basidiocarps (fruit bodies) have auricularioid (laterally septate) basidia and occur as parasites on or in the fruit bodies of other fungi.

Colacogloea
Colacogloea peniophorae
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Microbotryomycetes
Family: Colacogloeaceae
Genus: Colacogloea
Oberw. & Bandoni (1991)
Type species
Colacogloea peniophorae
(Bourdot & Galzin) Oberw., R. Bauer & Bandoni (1991)

Taxonomy

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The genus was proposed in 1991 by mycologists Franz Oberwinkler and Robert Bandoni to accommodate a species previously referred to the genus Platygloea but not related to Platygloea disciformis, the type of that genus. Unlike P. disciformis, Colacogloea peniophorae (now Colacogloea effusa) produces a yeast state and is parasitic on corticioid fungi, interacting with host hyphae through vesicular bodies called colacosomes.[1] Additional species having yeast states and colacosomes have subsequently been transferred to the genus.[2][3][4]

Molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, has confirmed that Colacogloea is monophyletic (a natural group). It has also shown that a number of yeast species, some of which were previously referred to the genus Rhodotorula, belong in Colacogloea.[5][6]

Species

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References

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  1. ^ Oberwinkler F, Bauer R, Bandoni RJ (1991). "Colacogloea: a new genus in the auricularioid Heterobasidiomycetes". Canadian Journal of Botany. 68: 2531–2536. doi:10.1139/b90-318.
  2. ^ Oberwinkler F, Bauer R, Tschen J (1999). "The mycoparasitism of Platygloea bispora". Kew Bulletin. 54: 763–769. doi:10.2307/4110873.
  3. ^ Kirschner R, Oberwinkler F (2000). "A new species of Colacogloea with zygoconidia" (PDF). Sydowia. 52: 195–203.
  4. ^ Bandoni RJ, Krug JC, Ginns JH (2002). "On some Colacogloea species from Canada". Czech Mycology. 54: 31–54. doi:10.33585/cmy.54105.
  5. ^ Wang Q, Yurkov AM, Göker M, Lumbsch HT, Leavitt SD, Groenewald M, Theelen B, Liu X, Boekhout T, Bai F (2016). "Phylogenetic classification of yeasts and related taxa within Pucciniomycotina". Studies in Mycology. 81: 149–189. doi:10.1016/j.simyco.2015.12.002. PMC 4777780. PMID 26951631.
  6. ^ Li A, Yuan F, Groenewald M, Bensch K, Yurkov AM, Li K, Han P, Guo L, Aime MC, Sampaio JP, Jindamorakot S, Turchetti B, Inacio J, Fungsin B, Wang Q, Bai F (2020). "Diversity and phylogeny of basidiomycetous yeasts from plant leaves and soil: Proposal of two new orders, three new families, eight new genera and one hundred and seven new species". Studies in Mycology. 96: 17–140. doi:10.1016/j.simyco.2020.01.002. PMC 7082220. PMID 32206137.