PYCC 3059
PYCC 3059
General Information
Taxonomy
1 - Taxon name
Starmerella etchellsii
2 - Classification
Ascomycota
3 - Strain (species name) changes
Candida etchellsii; Brettanomyces sphaericus; Torulopsis etchellsii
4 - Status of the strain
Type strain of Starmerella etchellsii; Type strain of Candida erchellsii; Type strain of Torulopsis etchellsii
5 - Basis for identification
Molecular (D1D2)
6 - Identified by
Margarida Silva, 2023
Other Collections
7 - Original strain number
NA
8 - Accession numbers in other collections
CBS 1750;ATCC 60119;CCRC 21624;IFO 1592;JCM 8066;JCM 8265;NRRL Y-17084
Biosafety and restrictions
9 - Biological Safety Level
BSL-1
10 - Access and Benefit Sharing (CBD, Nagoya protocol)
No known ABS restrictions
Strain details
11 - PYCC strain status
Open
12 - Mediterranean strain
No
13 - Substrate of isolation
fermenting cucumber brine
14 - Category of substrate
Food & beverages
15 - Locality
Unknown
16 - Country of origin
USA
18 - Sample Collected by
NA
19 - Isolated by and date of isolation
NA
20 - Isolation details
NA
21 - Deposited by
1963
22 - History
NA
23 - Preservation
Glass beads; 20% Glycerol; -150ºC Freeze dried ampoules
24 - Price per culture
85€
25 - Remarks
Molecular identification (D1D2) did not correspond to the original identification - Wickerhamiella domercqiae
Growth conditions
26 - Medium for growth
YMA
Molecular data
Phenotype
Fermentation
F1 D-Glucose
-
F2 D-Galactose
-
F3 Maltose
-
F5 Sucrose
-
F6 a,a-Trehalose
-
F7 Melibiose
-
F8 Lactose
-
F9 Cellobiose
-
F10 Melezitose
-
F11 Raffinose
-
F12 Inulin
-
Assimilation-Growth
C1 D-Glucose
+
C2 D-Galactose
+
C3 L-Sorbose
+
C4 D-Glucosamine
-
C5 D-Ribose
+
C6 D-Xylose
-
C7 L-Arabinose
-
C8 D-Arabinose
-
C9 L-Rhamnose
-
C10 Sucrose
-
C11 Maltose
+, D, W
C12 a,a-Trehalose
-
C13 Me a-D-Glucoside
-
C14 Cellobiose
-
C15 Salicin
-
C16 Arbutin spliting
-
C17 Melibiose
-
C18 Lactose
-
C19 Raffinose
-
C20 Melezitose
-
C21 Inulin
-
C22 Starch
-
C23 Glycerol
+
C24 Erythritol
-
C25 Ribitol
-
C26 Xylitol
+
C28 D-Glucitol
+, D, W
C29 D-Mannitol
+
C30 Galactitol
-
C31 myo-Inositol
-
C32 D-Glucono-1,5-lactone
+, D, W
C35 D-Gluconate
+, D, W
C36 D-Glucuronate
-
C38 DL-Lactate
-
C39 Succinate
+, D, W
C40 Citrate
-
C41 Methanol
-
C42 Ethanol
-
C50 L-Malic acid
-
C51 L-Tartaric acid
-
N1 Nitrate
+, D, W
N2 Nitrite
+, D, W
N3 Ethylamine
+
N4 L-Lysine
+
N5 Cadaverine
+
N6 Creatine
-
N7 Creatinine
-
V1 w/o vitamins
-
T1 Growth at 25ºC
+
T1 Growth at 30ºC
T3 Growth at 35ºC
T4 Growth at 37ºC
O1 Cycloheximide 0.01%
-
O2 Cycloheximide 0.1%
-
O4 50% D-Glucose
+
O6 10% NaCl
+
M1 Starch formation
-
M3 Urea hydrolysis
-
M4 Diazonium Blue B reaction
-
Bibliography
Title
Flowers as a reservoir of yeast diversity: description of Wickerhamiella nectarea f.a. sp. nov., and Wickerhamiella natalensis f.a. sp. nov. from South African flowers and pollinators, and transfer of related Candida species to the genus Wickerhamiella as new combination