Marc-André Lachance

TL;DR: Specific yeast communities vectored by beetles, drosophilids, and bees that visit ephemeral flowers, mostly in the genus Hibiscus and in the families Convolvulaceae and Cactaceae, in the Neotropical, Nearctic, and Australian biogeographic regions are studied.

TL;DR: Two new yeast species were isolated from flowers of Hibiscus species in Eastern and Northern Australia and confirm the membership of K. kakaduensis in the genus Kodamaea and indicate that C. tolerans belongs to the Clavispora-Metschnikowia clade with a moderate relatedness to Candida mogii.

TL;DR: Five isolates of a novel species of the yeast genus Malassezia were isolated from animals in Japan and Brazil and showed that they were conspecific and belonged to the genus Malasseszia, which resembles M. dermatis and M. sympodialis, but can be distinguished from these species by its inability to use Cremophor EL as the sole lipid source and to hydrolyse aesculin.

TL;DR: The killer phenomenon of yeasts was investigated in naturally occurring yeast communities and genetic study of the killer yeast P. kluyveri indicates that the mode of inheritance of killer toxin production is nuclear and not cytoplasmic as is found in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Kluyveromyces lactis.

TL;DR: This chapter studies the genus Candida and explores the systematic discussion of the species that involves growth on YM agar, growth in glucose-yeast extract broth, and Dalmau plate culture on corn meal agar.