The Piskurozymaceae are a

family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...

of fungi in the order

Filobasidiales The Filobasidiales are an order in the fungal class Tremellomycetes. The order contains two families and seven genera Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living a ...

. Most

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

are only known from their

yeast Yeasts are eukaryotic, single-celled microorganisms classified as members of the fungus kingdom (biology), kingdom. The first yeast originated hundreds of millions of years ago, and at least 1,500 species are currently recognized. They are est ...

states, but some produce filamentous sexual states with

basidia A basidium (: basidia) is a microscopic spore-producing structure found on the hymenophore of reproductive bodies of basidiomycete fungi. The presence of basidia is one of the main characteristic features of the group. These bodies are also ...

that are parasitic on other fungi. The family currently contains two

genera Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial s ...

. The genus name of ''Piskurozyma'' is in honour of Jure Piškur (1960-2014), who was a Slovenian molecular geneticist from the

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q27685058 Tremellomycetes Basidiomycota families Taxa described in 2015