Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Saccharomycetes >>  Order: Saccharomycetales 
   
 
 BCRC Number NO BCRC Number!  
   
 Scientific Name: Candida novakii
 
   
   
 Author:

Candida novakii P?ter et al 1997.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Growth on yeast extract-malt extract agar: After 3 days at 25 °C, the cells are subglobose (3.4-5.8 × 2.7-4.6 μm), single or in pairs. Vegetative reproduction is accomplished by multilateral budding. Growth on yeast extract-malt extract agar: After 7 days at 25 °C, streak cultures are creamy, butyrous, smooth, convex, glistening and entire. Dalmau plate culture on corn meal agar: On Dalmau plate cultures on corn meal agar after 10 days at 25 °C, pseudomycelium and/or mycelium can be found under the cover glass. Formation of ascospores: After 10 days at 18 °C on CM agar, YM agar, McClary’s acetate agar, malt extract agar, and V8 agar, ascopores are absent.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

GY33S04, soil, Sinyi, Nantou, Taiwan, 2008; GY43S03, Soil, Alishan, Chia-I, Taiwan, 2008.

 
 
 
 Habitat: Soil, rotten tree
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan, Hungary

 
 
 
 References:

P?ter, G. et al. 1997. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 71: 375-378.

   
   
   
 Provided:

C. F. Lee

 
 
 Note: This species is placed in biological safety level 1.