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Neocallimasticales
Medical Definition: | An order of fungi in the phylum CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA comprising anaerobic chytrids that inhabit the rumen and cecum of herbivorous animals. Genera (all in the lone family Neocallimasticaceae) include NEOCALLIMASTIX, Orpinomyces, Piromonas, PIROMYCES, and Sphaeromonas. |
Also Called: | Sphaeromonas,Orpinomyces,Piromonas |
Neocallimastix - A genus of fungi in the family Neocallimasticaceae, order NEOCALLIMASTICALES. They contain polyflagellate zoospores and grow on a range of simple and complex carbohydrates in the rumen of sheep and cattle. | |
Piromyces - A genus of fungi in the family Neocallimasticaceae, order NEOCALLIMASTICALES, containing uniflagellate zoospores. |
Neocallimasticales Medical Definitions and Terms
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