Metschnikowia Kamienski

The diversity, extracellular enzymatic activities and photoprotective compounds of yeasts isolated in Antarctica

“…The ascomycetous yeast Metschnikowia australis is indigenous to Antarctic seawater (11), and we isolated it from marine sediment and seawater (Table 3) and is considered to be a psychrophilic yeast (25). This is the first report of its occurrence in Antarctica.…”

A history of research on yeasts 8: taxonomy

“…1962 Nicolau van Uden 33 accepted Kamenski's Metschnikowia because, as a sponge is an animal, use of the same name for a yeast is permissible [251]. As van Uden commented subsequently [180], none of the Metschnikowia species was isolated in pure culture by their authors, their descriptions being based on morphological observations of the yeasts in the hosts on which they were parasitic. This was so until van Uden, himself, obtained pure cultures of M. krissii and M. zobellii from marine sources [253].…”

Metschnikowia koreensis sp. nov., a novel yeast species isolated from flowers in Korea.

“…The ascomycetous yeast genus Metschnikowia is defined by the presence of multilateral budding of vegetative cells and by the production of one or two needle-shaped ascospores in elongated asci (Miller & Phaff, 1998). Species isolated from terrestrial habitats are typically associated with flowers or fruits and transmitted to new niches by insects ; species isolated from aquatic habitats are often parasitic in invertebrates but can also be isolated as free-living forms in water (Miller & Phaff, 1998).…”