Neocallimastix

Neocallimastix
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Neocallimastigomycota
Class:	Neocallimastigomycetes
Order:	Neocallimastigales
Family:	Neocallimastigaceae
Genus:	Neocallimastix; Vavra & Joyon ex I.B.Heath (1983)
Type species
	Neocallimastix frontalis ; (R.A.Braune) Vavra & Joyon ex I.B.Heath (1983)
Species
	N. frontalis; N. hurleyensis; N. joyoni; N. patriciarum; N. variabilis

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.

Neocallimastix is a genus of obligately anaerobic rumen fungi in the family Neocallimastigaceae.^[2]

References

^ Heath IB, Bauchop T, Skipp RA. (1983). "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. doi:10.1139/b83-033.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ Carlile MJ, Watkinson SC. (1994). The Fungi. Academic Press. pp. 33–34. ISBN 0-12-159960-4.

External links

Neocallimastix in Index Fungorum

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[Heath_1983-1] Heath IB, Bauchop T, Skipp RA. (1983). "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. doi:10.1139/b83-033.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[Carlile_1994-2] Carlile MJ, Watkinson SC. (1994). The Fungi. Academic Press. pp. 33–34. ISBN 0-12-159960-4.

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