Starmerella is a genus of fungi within the Saccharomycetales order. The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the order is unknown (incertae sedis), and it has not yet been placed with certainty into any family.[2] Although, the GBIF list the family as Phaffomycetaceae.[3] 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.[4][5]

Starmerella
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Starmerella

C.A. Rosa & Lachance[1]
Type species
Starmerella bombicola
C.A. Rosa & Lachance

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 and emeritus professor of biology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University.[6]

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As accepted by Species Fungorum;[7]

References

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  1. ^ Rosa CA, Lachance MA (October 1998). "The yeast genus Starmerella gen. nov. and Starmerella bombicola sp. nov., the teleomorph of Candida bombicola (Spencer, Gorin & Tullock) Meyer & Yarrow". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 48 Pt 4 (4): 1413–7. doi:10.1099/00207713-48-4-1413. PMID 9828444.
  2. ^ Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. 13. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany: 1–58.
  3. ^ "Phaffomycetaceae". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  4. ^ Kurtzman CP, Price NP, Ray KJ, Kuo TM (October 2010). "Production of sophorolipid biosurfactants by multiple species of the Starmerella (Candida) bombicola yeast clade". FEMS Microbiology Letters. 311 (2): 140–6. doi:10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.02082.x. PMID 20738402.
  5. ^ Takahashi M, Morita T, Wada K, Hirose N, Fukuoka T, Imura T, Kitamoto D (2011). "Production of sophorolipid glycolipid biosurfactants from sugarcane molasses using Starmerella bombicola NBRC 10243". Journal of Oleo Science. 60 (5): 267–73. doi:10.5650/jos.60.267. PMID 21502725.
  6. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  7. ^ "Starmerella - Search Page". www.speciesfungorum.org. Species Fungorum. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
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