PYCC 6991

General Information

Taxonomy

1 - Taxon name

Zygosaccharomyces favi

2 - Classification

Ascomycota

3 - Strain (species name) changes

None

4 - Status of the strain

5 - Basis for identification

6 - Identified by

Other Collections

7 - Original strain number

PM 12

8 - Accession numbers in other collections

NCAIM Y.02134;ZIM 2550

Biosafety and restrictions

9 - Biological Safety Level

BSL-1

Strain details

11 - PYCC strain status

Open

12 - Mediterranean strain

13 - Substrate of isolation

Bee bread from honeycomb of Apis mellifera

14 - Category of substrate

Animal

15 - Locality

Banokszentgyorgy

16 - Country of origin

Hungary

18 - Sample Collected by

19 - Isolated by and date of isolation

2008

20 - Isolation details

21 - Deposited by

Neza Cadez, Nov. 2015

22 - History

NCAIM > N. Cadez > PYCC

23 - Preservation

Glass beads; 20% Glycerol; -150ºC

24 - Price per culture

90€

25 - Remarks

Zygosaccharomyces favi is an osmohilic yeast therefor it grows only on low water activity media

Growth conditions

26 - Medium for growth

MY30G

Molecular data

DNA Sequence

Region

26S

Sequence Title

KJ825951

Gene Bank Url

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/KJ825951

Bibliography

Title

Zygosaccharomyces favi sp. nov., an obligate osmophilic yeast species from bee bread and honey.