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Metarhizium
Sign in to saveMetarhizium is a genus of entomopathogenic fungi in the family Clavicipitaceae. With the advent of genetic profiling, placing these fungi in proper taxa has now become possible. Most turn out to be the asexual forms (anamorphs) of fungi in the phylum Ascomycota, including Metacordyceps spp.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassSordariomycetes
- OrderHypocreales
- FamilyClavicipitaceae
メタリジウム(Metarhizium)はバッカクキン科に属し、分生子が緑がかった色調となる昆虫病原糸状菌。種によって様々な昆虫に感染し死に至らしめることから、害虫に対する微生物農薬として利用されている。分類学上はメタリジウム属に相当し、黒きょう病菌や緑きょう病菌と呼ばれる菌や、有性世代に広義の冬虫夏草を生じる菌を含んでいる。
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 7
- Family
- Clavicipitaceae
- Collections
- UCSC, UFV, BPI, MICH
- Recorded in
- United States, Brasil
Research
2,560 papers- Metarhizium: an opportunistic middleman for multitrophic lifestyles.Current opinion in microbiology · 2022
- Metarhizium: jack of all trades, master of many.Open biology · 2020
- Metarhizium robertsii.Trends in parasitology · 2024
- The evolution of complex Metarhizium-insect-plant interactions.Fungal biology · 2024
- Photobiology of the keystone genus Metarhizium.Journal of photochemistry and photobiology. B, Biology · 2022
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Clavicipitaceae
- Image
- Metarhizium anisopliae infected cockroach (PLoS).jpg
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- Metarhizium anisopliae
- taxon author citation
- Sorokīn
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Encyclopedic overview
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Metarhizium is a genus of entomopathogenic fungi in the family Clavicipitaceae. With the advent of genetic profiling, placing these fungi in proper taxa has now become possible. Most turn out to be the asexual forms (anamorphs) of fungi in the phylum Ascomycota, including Metacordyceps spp.
== Species == Before molecular techniques were introduced at the end of the 20th century, Metarhizium species were identified on morphological (notably conidial) characteristics. The 'original' species included: M. anisopliae (with M.a. var. major), M. brunneum, M. cicadinum, M. cylindrosporum, M. flavoviride, M. taii, M. truncatum, and M. viridicolumnare. In 2009, nine former varieties of the type species M. anisopliae were assigned species status. New species have continued to be identified, with original names sometimes re-instated (notably M. brunneum). The first complete chromosome length genome sequence for any Metarhizium was carried out for this species at Swansea University in 2021.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Metarhizium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.