Species/Subspecies: Histoplasma capsulatum subsp. capsulatum
Category: Animal pathogen
Etymology: Genus name: web, formed from the loom.
Species epithet: encapsulated.
Alternative Species Name(s):Ajellomyces capsulatus
Significance:  [Of minor importance]   
Taxonomy:
PhylumClassOrderFamilyGenus
AscomycotaEurotiomycetesOnygenalesAjellomycetaceaeHistoplasma
 
Macromorphology (smell): H. capsulatum subsp. capsulatum is a thermally dimorhic fungus, which grows as a yeast in warm-blooded animals.
Micromorphology: Like mould: Septated hyphae with small conidia and sunflower-like macroconidia (10-15 µm in diameter).
Like Yeast: The yeast cells are oval and 2-5 µm in diameter.
Reproduction:This fungus has both asexual and sexual reproduction and it is heterothallic.
Spec. Char.:
Reservoir: Soil and particularly when is is contaminated with bird or bat droppings.
Disease/effect:
Genome Sequence:
ACC-No GenBankStrain/Isolate# of chromSize (Mbp)
GCA_000149585 NAm1  30.6 
18S rRNA Seq:
ACC-No GenBankStrain/IsolateNumber of NT
KY792633 UZ_597_16 641 
Partial sequence

ITS regions:
ACC-No GenBankStrain/IsolateNumber of NTGenes
NR_149341 CBS 136.72TM 522 ITS 1, 5.8S rRNA, ITS 2 

Taxonomy/phylogeny:
Updated:2022-06-22

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