Yeasts Biodiversity and Its Significance: Case Studies in Natural and Human-Related Environments, Ex Situ Preservation, Applications and Challenges

Abstract

As everybody knows, the dynamic interactions between biotic and abiotic factors, as well as the anthropic ones, considerably affect global climate changes and consequently biology, ecology and distribution of life forms of our planet. These important natural events affect all ecosystems, causing important changes on biodiversity. Systematic and phylogenetic studies, biogeographic distribution analysis and evaluations of diversity richness are focal topics of this book written by international experts, some even considering economical effects and future perspectives on the managing and conservation plans.

Kodamaea transpacifica f.a., sp. nov., a yeast species isolated from ephemeral flowers and insects in the Galápagos Islands and Malaysia: further evidence for ancient human transpacific contacts

“…nov. and S. fodiens join yet another recently discovered yeast species where dispersal may be linked to the activity of ancient human populations. Candida theae was described from two different isolates, one from an Indonesian tea bottle collected in 2009 and the second recovered during a microbial archaeology survey in Quito, Ecuador (Gomes et al , 2009; Carvajal et al , 2011). The yeast came from an ancient chicha fermentation vessel dated to 680 CE (Chang et al 2012).…”

Characterization of yeast population from unstudied natural sources in La Mancha region

“…The amounts of plant, animal and micro‐organism species, with their great genetic variability, are all part of this biological diversity (Patarkalashvili 2017). The loss of biodiversity due to human activity is one of the main concerns worldwide (Carvajal Barriga 2011).…”

“…However, research on microbial diversity has commonly been focused on bacteria and filamentous fungi because of their importance in health, biotechnology and the environment. Regarding to yeast ecology, it is estimated that there is a big potential biodiversity that is still unknown and should be studied in the future (Carvajal Barriga 2011) and the interest in studies related with this topic is growing nowadays (Lachance 2006).…”