Danielozyma

Fungalpedia – Note 529, Danielozyma

 

Danielozyma Kurtzman & Robnett

Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Yeast. 

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1 

Classification: Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Saccharomycetes, Saccharomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi.

Danielozyma, a new non-ascosporic ascomycetous yeast genus, was introduced by Kurtzman and Robnett (2014) to reclassify C. ontarioensis and C. litseae. Kurtzman and Robnett (2014) combined Candida ontarioensis as Danielozyma ontarioensis as the type species and combined Candida litseae as Danielozyma litseae as the second species in Danielozyma, based on current descriptions (species and genera) and analysis of nuclear gene sequences (Kurtzman & Robn 1998, 2014, Kurtzman 2001). Currently, there are only two accepted species of Danielozyma. Danielozyma are formed by multilateral budding and formation of pseudohyphae and true hyphae, which are globosae or ellipsoidea to elongate, in pairs, and in short chains (Kurtzman & Robnett 1998, 2014, Kurtzman 2001). An earlier study showed that D. ontarioensis and D. litseae are associated with Sporopachydermia (Kurtzman & Robnett 2007). 

Type species: Danielozyma ontarioensis (Kurtzman & Robnett) Kurtzman & Robnett

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Danielozyma

 

Figure 1 – Danielozyma ontarioensis (= Candida ontarioensis). a Budding yeast cells b True hyphae with clusters of blastoconidia c Endospores in hyphal cells. Scale bars = 5 µm. Redrawn from Kurtzman and Robnett (1998).

 

References

Kurtzman CP, Robnett CJ. 1998 – Three new insect associated species of the yeast genus Candida. Canadian Journal of Microbiology 44, 965–973.

Kurtzman CP. 2001 – Four new Candida species from geographically diverse locations. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 79,353–361.

Kurtzman CP, Robnett CJ. 2007 – Multigene phylogenetic analysis of the Trichomonascus, Wickerhamiella and Zygoascus yeast clades, and the proposal of Sugiyamaella gen. nov. and 14 new species combinations. FEMS Yeast Research 7, 141–151.

Kurtzman CP, Robnett CJ. 2014 – Three new anascosporic genera of the Saccharomycotina: Danielozyma gen. nov., Deakozyma gen. nov. and Middelhovenomyces gen. nov. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 105, 933–942.

 

Entry by

Lu W, Excellence Center of Microbial Diversity and Sustainable Utilization, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand; Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, Yunnan 655011, China

 

(Edited by Saowaluck Tibpromma, Samaneh Chaharmiri-Dokhaharani, & Achala R. Rathnayaka)

 

Published online 9 December 2024

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