Starmerella

Starmerella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Phylum:	Ascomycota
Subphylum:	Saccharomycotina
Class:	Saccharomycetes
Order:	Saccharomycetales
Family:	Incertae sedis
Genus:	Starmerella; C.A. Rosa & Lachance
Type species
	Starmerella bombicola; C.A. Rosa & Lachance
Species
	S. bombicola; S. meliponinorum

Starmerella is a genus of fungi within the Saccharomycetales order. The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the order is unknown (incertae sedis), and it has not yet been placed with certainty into any family.^[2] Several members of the Starmerella clade are associated with flowers and flower-visiting insects like bees and bumblebees; these yeasts cope well with high sugar niches. Many strains (species) of the Starmerella clade, including Starmerella bombicola and Candida apicola are known to produce sophorolipids which are carbohydrate-based, amphiphilic biosurfactants.^[3]^[4]^[5]

References

^ Rosa CA, Lachance MA (October 1998). "The yeast genus Starmerella gen. nov. and Starmerella bombicola sp. nov., the teleomorph of Candida bombicola (Spencer, Gorin & Tullock) Meyer & Yarrow". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 48 Pt 4 (4): 1413–7. doi:10.1099/00207713-48-4-1413. PMID 9828444.
^ Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. 13. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany: 1–58.
^ Kurtzman CP, Price NP, Ray KJ, Kuo TM (October 2010). "Production of sophorolipid biosurfactants by multiple species of the Starmerella (Candida) bombicola yeast clade". FEMS Microbiology Letters. 311 (2): 140–6. doi:10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.02082.x. PMID 20738402.
^ Parekh VJ, Pandit AB (2011). "Optimization of fermentative production of sophorolipid biosurfactant by Starmerella bombicola NRRL Y-17069 using response surface methodology". Int J Pharm Biol Sci. 1 (3): 103–116.
^ Takahashi M, Morita T, Wada K, Hirose N, Fukuoka T, Imura T, Kitamoto D (2011). "Production of sophorolipid glycolipid biosurfactants from sugarcane molasses using Starmerella bombicola NBRC 10243". Journal of Oleo Science. 60 (5): 267–73. doi:10.5650/jos.60.267. PMID 21502725.

External links

Starmerella at Index Fungorum

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[1] Rosa CA, Lachance MA (October 1998). "The yeast genus Starmerella gen. nov. and Starmerella bombicola sp. nov., the teleomorph of Candida bombicola (Spencer, Gorin & Tullock) Meyer & Yarrow". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 48 Pt 4 (4): 1413–7. doi:10.1099/00207713-48-4-1413. PMID 9828444.

[2] Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. 13. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany: 1–58.

[3] Kurtzman CP, Price NP, Ray KJ, Kuo TM (October 2010). "Production of sophorolipid biosurfactants by multiple species of the Starmerella (Candida) bombicola yeast clade". FEMS Microbiology Letters. 311 (2): 140–6. doi:10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.02082.x. PMID 20738402.

[4] Parekh VJ, Pandit AB (2011). "Optimization of fermentative production of sophorolipid biosurfactant by Starmerella bombicola NRRL Y-17069 using response surface methodology". Int J Pharm Biol Sci. 1 (3): 103–116.

[5] Takahashi M, Morita T, Wada K, Hirose N, Fukuoka T, Imura T, Kitamoto D (2011). "Production of sophorolipid glycolipid biosurfactants from sugarcane molasses using Starmerella bombicola NBRC 10243". Journal of Oleo Science. 60 (5): 267–73. doi:10.5650/jos.60.267. PMID 21502725.

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