A new species of Tetramitus in the benthos of a saline antarctic lake

Candida argentea sp. nov., a copper and silver resistant yeast species

“…The extent of DNA divergence detected (!6 % in the D1/D2 rDNA region, and !3 % in the ITS region) is consistent with C. argentea representing a newly identified species, and perhaps a new genus (Kurtzman & Robnett 1997;Kurtzman et al 2008). New species of yeast, and other taxa, have also recently been described on the basis of DNA sequence divergence in the rDNA region (Murtagh et al 2002;Kurtzman 2005;Suh et al 2006;Kurtzman et al 2008;Suh & Zhou 2010).…”

Diversity of Heterolobosea

“…The growth optimum of Vahlkampfia signyensis is 10 o C and the cells die when the temperature exceeds 20 o C (Garstecki et al, 2005). Tetramitus vestfoldii isolated from microbial mat of a brackish Antarctic lake grows at 5 o C (Murtagh et al, 2002).…”

Survey on diversity of marine/saline anaerobic Heterolobosea (Excavata: Discoba) with description of seven new species

“…In particular, a significant number of species have been detected in various extreme habitats, such as thermal springs, Antarctic lakes, and hypersaline or highly acidic habitats (Amaral-Zettler et al, 2002Murtagh et al, 2002;Garstecki et al, 2005;Park et al, 2007Park et al, , 2009Baumgartner et al, 2009;De Jonckheere et al, 2009, 2011aPark & Simpson, 2011). Ten species of obligately anaerobic/microaerophilic heteroloboseids have been described so far (Perty, 1852;Ruinen, 1938;Broers et al, 1990Broers et al, , 1993Smirnov & Fenchel, 1996;O'Kelly et al, 2003;Brugerolle & Simpson, 2004;Pánek et al, 2012).…”