Candida tolerans

Candida tolerans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
Subphylum: Saccharomycotina
Class: Saccharomycetes
Order: Saccharomycetales
Family: Saccharomycetaceae
Genus: Candida
Species: C. tolerans
Lachance et al. 1999

Candida tolerans is an ascomycetous yeast species first isolated from Australian Hibiscus flowers. It is small and a pseudomycelium is formed. The carbon and nitrogen assimilation pattern is similar to that of Zygosaccharomyces rouxii. Its type strain is UWO (PS) 98-115.5 (CBS 8613).[1]

References

  1. Lachance MA, Bowles JM, Starmer WT, Barker JS (1999). "Kodamaea kakaduensis and Candida tolerans, two new ascomycetous yeast species from Australian Hibiscus flowers". Can J Microbiol. 45 (2): 172–7. doi:10.1139/w98-225. PMID 10380650.

Further reading

  • Kurtzman, Cletus; Fell, J.W.; Boekhout, Teun, eds. (2011). The Yeasts: A Taxonomic Study. 1 (5th ed.). Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-08-093127-2.
  • Rosa, Carlos A.; Peter, Gabor, eds. (2006). Biodiversity and Ecophysiology of Yeasts. 1. Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-30985-7.


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