Clavispora, a new yeast genus of the Saccharomycetales

✍ Scribed by L. Rodrigues de Miranda

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 658 KB
• Volume: 45
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-6072
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00443285

✦ Synopsis

a new yeast genus of the Saccharomycetales. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 45: 479-483.

In Candida lusitaniae van Uden et do Carmo-Sousa (1959), strains of opposite sex have been found. Cells of the opposite mating types conjugate and form asci with one to four clavate spores. These are easily liberated from the ascus. The type strain of Candida obtusa (Dietrichson) van Uden et do Carmo-Sousa ex van Uden et Buckley (1970) also produces ascospores after mating with one of the strains of Candida lusitaniae. As clavate ascospores are unknow in yeasts, a new genus, Clavispora, is proposed with Clavispora lusitaniae spec. nov. as type species.