''Starmerella'' is a
genus
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of
fungi
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within the
Saccharomycetales order. The relationship of this
taxon
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to other taxa within the
order is unknown (''
incertae sedis''), and it has not yet been placed with certainty into any
family. Although, the
GBIF list the family as
Phaffomycetaceae.
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.
The genus was
circumscribed by Carlos Augusto Rosa and Marc-André Lachance in Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. vol.48 (4) on page 1413 in 1998.
The genus name of ''Starmerella'' is in honour of
William Thomas Starmer (b.1944), an American
botanist
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and emeritus professor of biology in the
College of Arts and Sciences at
Syracuse University
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.
Species
As accepted by
Species Fungorum;
* ''
Starmerella aceti''
* ''
Starmerella anomalae''
* ''
Starmerella apicola''
* ''
Starmerella apis''
* ''
Starmerella asiatica''
* ''
Starmerella bacillaris''
* ''
Starmerella batistae''
* ''
Starmerella bombi''
* ''
Starmerella bombicola''
* ''
Starmerella camargoi''
* ''
Starmerella cellae''
* ''
Starmerella davenportii''
* ''
Starmerella etchellsii''
* ''
Starmerella floricola''
* ''
Starmerella floris
''Starmerella'' is a genus of fungi within the Saccharomycetales order. The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the order (biology), order is unknown (''incertae sedis''), and it has not yet been placed with certainty into any family ...
''
* ''
Starmerella geochares''
* ''
Starmerella gropengiesseri''
* ''
Starmerella henanensis''
* ''
Starmerella ilheusensis''
* ''
Starmerella khaoyaiensis''
* ''
Starmerella kuoi''
* ''
Starmerella lactis-condensi''
* ''
Starmerella litoralis''
* ''
Starmerella magnoliae''
* ''
Starmerella meliponinorum''
* ''
Starmerella neotropicalis''
* ''
Starmerella opuntiae''
* ''
Starmerella potacharoeniae''
* ''
Starmerella riodocensis''
* ''
Starmerella roubikii''
* ''
Starmerella scarabaei''
* ''
Starmerella sirachaensis''
* ''
Starmerella sorbosivorans''
* ''
Starmerella stellata''
* ''
Starmerella vaccinii''
* ''
Starmerella vitae''
References
External links
*
Starmerella' at
Index Fungorum
''Index Fungorum'' is an international project to index all formal names (scientific names) in the fungus kingdom. As of 2015, the project is based at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, one of three partners along with Landcare Research and th ...
Saccharomycetes
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