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Mucor indicusColonies are characteristically deep-yellow, aromatic and have a maximum growth temperature of 42C. Sporangiophores are hyaline to yellowish, erect or rarely circinate and repeatedly sympodially branched, with long branches. Sporangia are yellow to brown, up to 75 µm in diameter, with diffluent membranes. Columellae are subglobose to pyriform, often with truncate bases, up to 40 µm high. Sporangiospores are smooth-walled, subglobose to ellipsoidal, and 4-5 µm in diameter. Chlamydospores are produced in abundance, especially in the light. Zygospores when formed by crosses of compatible mating strains are black, spherical up to 100 µm in diameter, with stellate spines and unequal suspensor cells. Mucor indicus differs from other species of Mucor by its characteristic deep-yellow colony colour, growth at over 40C, assimilating ethanol, but not nitrate, and being thiamine dependent (Schipper 1978, de Hoog et al. 2000, Schipper and Staplers 2003). RG-1 organism. Mycosis: ZygomycosisFurther reading:Domsch, K.H., W. Gams, and T.H. Anderson. 1980. Compendium of soil fungi. Volume 1. Academic Press, London, UK. Ellis, D.H. 1997. Zygomycetes. Chapter 16 In Topley and Wilson's Microbiology and Microbial Infections. 9th edition Edward Arnold London pp247-277.
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