Naganishia vishniacii

Naganishia vishniacii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Tremellomycetes
Order:	Filobasidiales
Family:	Filobasidiaceae
Genus:	Naganishia
Species:	N. vishniacii
Binomial name
Naganishia vishniacii (Vishniac & Hempfling) X.Z. Liu, F.Y. Bai, M. Groenew. & Boekhout (2015)
Synonyms
Cryptococcus vishniacii

Naganishia vishniacii is an extremophile fungus originally isolated as a yeast from soil samples in the dry valleys of Antarctica. The species grows at 4 degrees Celsius and below but not at 26 degrees Celsius and above. Visually it is characterized as a cream mass in culture. It is nonfermentative and assimilates glucose, maltose, melezitose, trehalose, and xylose. ^[1] Molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, shows that the species does not belong in the Cryptococcaceae. ^{[2] [3]}

References

1. Vishniac HS, Hempfling WP (1979). "Cryptococcus vishniacii sp. nov., an Antarctic yeast". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 29 (2): 153–158. doi: 10.1099/00207713-29-2-153 .
2. Liu XZ, Wang QM, Göker M, Groenewald M, Kachalkin AV, Lumbsch HT, Millanes AM, Wedin M, Yurkov AM, Boekhout T, Bai FY (2015). "Towards an integrated phylogenetic classification of the Tremellomycetes". Studies in Mycology. 81: 85–147. doi:10.1016/j.simyco.2015.12.001. PMC   4777781 . PMID   26955199.
3. Nizovoy, Paula; Bellora, Nicolás; Haridas, Sajeet; Sun, Hui; Daum, Chris; Barry, Kerrie; Grigoriev, Igor V; Libkind, Diego; Connell, Laurie B; Moliné, Martín (2021-01-22). "Unique genomic traits for cold adaptation in Naganishia vishniacii, a polyextremophile yeast isolated from Antarctica". FEMS Yeast Research. 21 (1) foaa056. doi: 10.1093/femsyr/foaa056 . hdl: 11336/131977 . ISSN   1567-1356.