Rozella

Rozella allomycis infects a potty fungus of the genus Allomyces

Rozella is a parasitic living genus of fungi. She is currently a member of any groups (Taxon ) assigned, but the group Cryptomycota 2011 was proposed for Rozella and other organisms that form the base of the mushrooms as a sister group to all other extant taxa.

Features

The representatives are parasites and infect mainly Chytridiomycota and Eipilze. They grow inside her whorl as cell wall trophic form. At any given time they transform into thick-walled resting spores or zoosporangia in cell wall, fill the whole host cell. You are holokarp, the whole thallus thus transforms into the fruiting body.

At least the kind Rozella allomycis has some ultrastructural features: The zoospores have a striped Rhizoplasten that connects the kinetosome ( the basal body of the flagellum ) with a large, spherical mitochondria. The latter is adjacent to the helmet -shaped nucleus.

System

Rozella is now managed within the Fungi incertae sedis as, ie not associated with a higher taxon.

In a molecular genetic investigation Rozella formed together with the Microsporidia the first branching of the other fungi clade:

Other fungi

Rozella

Microsporidia

Species

Currently, 24 species are expected in the genus Rozella:

• Rozella achlyae
• Rozella allomycetes
• Rozella allomycis
• Rozella apodyae - brachynematis
• Rozella barrettii
• Rozella blastocladiae

• Rozella canterae
• Rozella chytriomycetis
• Rozella cladochytrii
• Rozella cuculus
• Rozella diplophlyctidis
• Rozella endochytrii

• Rozella irregularis
• Rozella laevis
• Rozella longicollis
• Rozella longisporangia
• Rozella marina
• Rozella monoblepharidis - polymorphae

• Rozella parva
• Rozella polyphagi
• Rozella pseudomorpha
• Rozella rhipidii - spinous
• Rozella rhizophlycti
• Rozella rhizophydii