PYCC 10003

General Information

Taxonomy

1 - Taxon name

Wickerhamiella lachancei

2 - Classification

Ascomycota

3 - Strain (species name) changes

4 - Status of the strain

Type strain of Wickerhamiella lachancei

5 - Basis for identification

Molecular (D1D2 & ITS)

6 - Identified by

Rameshwar Avchar, 2024

Other Collections

7 - Original strain number

LC1.10

8 - Accession numbers in other collections

MCC 9929

Biosafety and restrictions

9 - Biological Safety Level

BSL-1

Strain details

11 - PYCC strain status

Open

12 - Mediterranean strain

13 - Substrate of isolation

nectar of flowers of Lantana camara

14 - Category of substrate

Vascular plants, mosses & algae

15 - Locality

16 - Country of origin

India

18 - Sample Collected by

19 - Isolated by and date of isolation

20 - Isolation details

21 - Deposited by

Rameshwar Avchar, Feb. 2024

22 - History

Rameshwar Avchar > PYCC

23 - Preservation

Glass beads; 20% Glycerol; -150C

24 - Price per culture

90€

25 - Remarks

Growth conditions

26 - Medium for growth

YMA

Molecular data

Bibliography

Title

Wickerhamiella lachancei f.a. sp. nov., a novel ascomycetous yeast species isolated from flowers of Lantana camara in India

Author

Rameshwar Avchar, Gargi Giri, Lucky Thakkar, Avinash Sharma, José Paulo Sampaio

Abstract

Two isolates representing a novel species of the genus Wickerhamiella were obtained in India from nectar of flowers of Lantana camara, an ornamental exotic species native to Central and South America. Phylogenetic analyses of the D1/D2 domain of the 26S large subunit (LSU) rRNA gene, internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region, and physiological characteristics, supported the recognition of the novel species, that we designate Wickerhamiella lachancei sp. nov (MycoBank no. MB851709), with MCC 9929T as the holotype and PYCC 10003T as the isotype. Considering pairwise sequence similarity, the type strain of the novel species differs from the type strain of the most closely related species, Wickerhamiella drosophilae CBS 8459T, by 16 nucleotide substitutions and two gaps (3.9 % sequence variation) in the D1/D2 region (560 bp compared) and 28 nucleotide substitutions and five gaps (7.22 % sequence variation) in the ITS region (444 bp compared).

Publication Date

07 May 2024

Link to Publication

https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.006365

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