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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 70, Issue 4, Pages 2334-2338Publisher
MICROBIOLOGY SOC
DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004040
Keywords
Cryolevonia; basidiomycete yeast; permafrost microbiology; cryobiology; cryophilic yeast
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- Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (Portugal) [UID/Multi/04378/2013]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) [IZLSZ2_170941]
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A cryophilic basidiomycetous yeast unable to grow at 18 degrees C or higher temperatures was isolated from a subsurface permafrost layer collected in the Eastern Swiss Alps and from melted sea ice collected in the Artic at Frobisher Bay, Nunavut, Canada. Phylogenetic analyses employing combined sequences of the D1/D2 domain and ITS region indicated that the two new isolates belong to the family Camptobasidiaceae of the class Microbotryomycetes but are distantly related to any of the currently recognized species and genera. Consequently, the novel genus Cryolevonia, and the novel species Cryolevonia schafbergensis (type strain PYCC 8347(T) =CBS 16055(T)) are proposed to accommodate this cryophilic yeast. Although sparse hyphae and teliosporelike stuctures were observed upon prolonged incubation, a sexual cycle was not observed and therefore C. schafbergensis is documented solely from its asexual stage.
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