Kluyveromyces aestuarii
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Saccharomycetes |
| Order: | Saccharomycetales |
| Family: | Saccharomycetaceae |
| Genus: | Kluyveromyces |
| Species: | K. aestuarii
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| Binomial name | |
| Kluyveromyces aestuarii (Fell) van der Walt, 1965
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Kluyveromyces aestuarii is a Kluyveromyces species of fungus occuring as a marine yeast. It was discovered in 1961 and was originally placed in the genus Saccharomyces.[1]
Taxonomy
[edit]Upon discovery, the fungus was named Saccharomyces aestuarii. A 1965 evaluation of the genus Kluyveromyces placed the species within that genus, with the new name of Kluyveromyces aestuarii, based on the properties of its ascospore formation.[2]
Growth and morphology
[edit]Colonies of K. aestuarii have colorations ranging from white to deep ochre, due to the presence of the iron chelate pulcherrimin in the cells.[3] The cells are globose to ellipsoidal in shape when grown on Yeast-Mold (YM) agar, and range between roughly 2–6×3–7 µm in size. Pseudohyphae formation occurs after roughly two weeks of growth on corn meal agar.[3] K. aestuarii is not particularly thermotolerant, and cannot grow at or above 37° C.[1][3] It has the ability to ferment glucose, as well as sucrose and raffinose, but cannot ferment galactose, lactose, or maltose.[1]
Ecology
[edit]Kluyveromyces aestuarii is a marine fungus. It was first isolated from shallow estuarine sediment in Biscayne Bay, off the coast of Florida.[1] It has also been discovered in the Torres Strait of Australia,[4] as well as in a mangrove forest near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where it was isolated from a shipworm (Neoteredo reynei), a clam (Tagelus plebius), and two crab species (Sesarma rectum and Uca spp.).[5] K. aestuarii has been identified as a possible indicator organism for environmental pollution of mangrove forests.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Fell, J. W. (1961). "A new species of Saccharomyces isolated from a subtropical estuary". Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek. 27: 27–30. doi:10.1007/BF02538419. ISSN 0003-6072. PMID 13698769.
- ^ van der Walt, J. P. (1965). "The emendation of the genus Kluyveromyces v. d. Walt". Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek. 31 (4): 341–348. doi:10.1007/BF02045913. ISSN 0003-6072. PMID 5296350.
- ^ a b c Lachance, Marc-André (2011-01-01), Kurtzman, Cletus P.; Fell, Jack W.; Boekhout, Teun (eds.), "Kluyveromyces van der Walt (1971)", The Yeasts (Fifth Edition), London: Elsevier, pp. 471–481, ISBN 978-0-444-52149-1, retrieved 2024-09-06
- ^ "CBS 4904". Westerdijk Fungalbio Diversity Institute. Retrieved 11 September 2024.
- ^ de Araujo, F. V.; Soares, C. A. G.; Hagler, A. N.; Mendonça-Hagler, L. C. (1995-08-01). "Ascomycetous yeast communities of marine invertebrates in a Southeast Brazilian mangrove ecosystem". Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 68 (2): 91–99. doi:10.1007/BF00873096. ISSN 1572-9699.
- ^ Araujo, F.V.; Hagler, A. N. (2011). "Kluyveromyces aestuarii, a potential environmental quality indicator yeast for mangroves in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil". Brazilian Journal of Microbiology. 42 (3): 954–958. doi:10.1590/S1517-838220110003000014. ISSN 1517-8382. PMC 3768779. PMID 24031711.