Cunninghamella
| Cunninghamella | |
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| Cunninghamella echinulata | |
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| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Order: | Mucorales |
| Family: | Cunninghamellaceae |
| Genus: |
Cunninghamella Matr. (1903) |
| Type species | |
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Cunninghamella africana Matr. 1903 |
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Cunninghamella is a genus of fungi in the order Mucorales, and the family Cunninghamellaceae. The genus was circumscribed by French mycologist Alphonse Louis Paul Matruchot in 1903.
As of 2015[update], Index Fungorum lists 13 valid species of Cunninghamella:
Members of this genus are often used in studies investigating the metabolism of drugs, because these species metabolize a wide range of drugs in manners similar to mammalian enzyme systems. Many species are also capable of oxidizing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, a class of stable organic molecules that tends to persist in the environment and contains many known carcinogenic and mutagenic compounds.
The presence of a has been demonstrated in C. bainieri.
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