Naganishia vishniacii

Naganishia vishniacii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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]

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