Ophiocordycipitaceae
| Ophiocordycipitaceae Temporal range: Middle Cretaceous - Recent, [1]
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| Dead ants infected with Ophiocordyceps unilateralis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Sordariomycetes |
| Order: | Hypocreales |
| Family: | Ophiocordycipitaceae G.H.Sung, J.M.Sung, Hywel-Jones & Spatafora (2007) |
| Type genus | |
| Ophiocordyceps Petch (1931)
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Ophiocordycipitaceae is a family of parasitic fungi in the Ascomycota, class Sordariomycetes.[2]
Genera
- Blistum
- Didymobotryopsis
- Haptocillium
- Harposporium
- Hirsutella
- Hymenostilbe
- Ophiocordyceps
- Paraisaria
- Polycephalomyces
- Purpureocillium
- Syngliocladium
- Synnematium
- Tolypocladium
- Trichosterigma
- †Paleoophiocordyceps[1]
References
- ^ a b Sung GH, Poinar GO Jr, Spatafora JW (2008). "The oldest fossil evidence of animal parasitism by fungi supports a Cretaceous diversification of fungal–arthropod symbioses". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 49 (2): 495–502. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.08.028. PMID 18817884.
- ^ Sung GH, Hywel-Jones NL, Sung JM, Luangsa-ard JJ, Shrestha B, Spatafora JW (2007). "Phylogenetic classification of Cordyceps and the clavicipitaceous fungi". Studies in Mycology. 57: 5–59. doi:10.3114/sim.2007.57.01. PMC 2104736. PMID 18490993.