@article{b8dc082da0ad421aaab8bcc5132bedad,
title = "Cystobasidium tubakii and Cystobasidium ongulense, new basidiomycetous yeast species isolated from East Ongul Island, East Antarctica",
abstract = "Two new cold-adapted yeast species, Cystobasidium tubakii sp. nov. and Cystobasidium ongulense sp. nov., were isolated from soil collected from East Ongul Island, East Antarctica, during the 49th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE 49). Molecular analysis based on large subunit (LSU) D1/D2 domain and the combined sequences of small subunit (SSU) rDNA, internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region, LSU D1/D2 domain and TEF1 sequences showed that these species are novel. Both species could grow at sub-zero temperatures and in vitamin-free media. These characteristics were likely obtained by the yeasts to survive oligotrophic environments such as that in Antarctica. This is the first report of new fungal species isolated from near the Syowa station in the 60-y history of JARE.",
keywords = "Antarctic yeast, Cystobasidiomycetes, LSU D1/D2 domain, Syowa station",
author = "Masaharu Tsuji and Megumu Tsujimoto and Satoshi Imura",
note = "Funding Information: This work was carried out as part of the Science Program of the 49th JARE. It was supported by NIPR under MEXT, Japan and SOKENDAI. This work was supported by a JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research (No. 16K12643), Young Scientists (A) (No. 16H06211) to M. Tsuji and Scientific Research (B) (No. 18310024) to S. Imura. The preparation of this paper was supported by an NIPR publication subsidy. We are grateful to Kenichi Watanabe for his technical support. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 The Mycological Society of Japan",
year = "2017",
month = mar,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/j.myc.2016.11.002",
language = "English",
volume = "58",
pages = "103--110",
journal = "Mycoscience",
issn = "1340-3540",
publisher = "Springer Japan",
number = "2",
}