Metschnikowia bicuspidata dominates in Taiwanese cold-weather yeast infections of Macrobrachium rosenbergii

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 191-199

  Chen, Shih Chu ^a   Chen, Yu Chin ^a   Kwang, Jimmy ^b   Manopo, Ivanus ^b   Wang, Pei Chi ^a   Chaung, Hso Chi ^a   Liaw, Li Ling ^c   Chiu, Shih Hau ^c  

^a NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c FOOD INDUSTRY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Giant freshwater prawn; Macrobrachium rosenbergii; Metschnikowia bicuspidata; Pathogenicity; PCR; Phylogenetic analysis; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

CRUSTACEAN; DNA; FUNGAL DISEASE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LESION; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WATER TEMPERATURE; YEAST;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MACROBRACHIUM ROSENBERGII; METSCHNIKOWIA BICUSPIDATA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 34250321396     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao075191     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Cameron A (2002) Survey toolbox for aquatic animal diseases; a practical manual and software package. Monographs MN094, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra
2. Chen SC, Lin YD, Liaw LL, Wang PC (2001) Lactococcus garvieae infection in the giant freshwater prawn Macrobranchium rosenbergii confirmed by polymerase chain reaction and 16S rDNA sequencing. Dis Aquat Org 45:45-52
3. Chen SC, Chen TH, Wang PC, Chen YC, Huang JP, Lin YD, Chaung HC, Liaw LL (2003) Metschnikowia bicuspidata and Enterococcus faecium co-infection in the giant freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii. Dis Aquat Org 55:161-167
4. Codreanu R, Codreanu-Balcescu D (1981) On two Metschnikowia yeast species producing hemocoelic infections in Daphnia magna and Artemia salina (Crustacea, Phyllopoda) from Romania. J Invertebr Pathol 37:22-27
5. Felsenstein J (1985) Confidence limits on phylogenies: an approach using the bootstrap. Evolution 39:783-791
6. Fitch WM (1972) Towards defining the course of evolution: minimum change for a specific tree topology. Syst Zool 20:406-416
7. Gläser HU, Thomas D, Gaxiola R, Montrichard F, Surdin-Kerjan Y, Serrano R (1993) Salt tolerance and methionine biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae involve a putative phosphatase gene. EMBO J 12:3105-3110
8. Jukes TH, Cantor CR (1969) Evolution of protein molecules. In: Munro HN (ed) Mammalian protein metabolism. Academic Press, New York, p 21-132
9. Kumar S, Tamura K, Jakobsen IB, Nei M (2001) MEGA2: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis software. Bioinformatics 17:1244-1245
10. Kurtzman CP, Robnett CJ (1997) Identification of clinically important ascomycetous yeasts based on nucleotide divergence in the 5′ end of the large-subunit (26S) ribosomal DNA gene. J Clin Microbiol 35:1216-1223
11. Lachance MA, Miranda M, Miller MW, Phaff HJ (1976) Dehiscence and active spore release in pathogenic strains of the yeast Metschnikowia bicuspidata var. australis: possible predatory implication. Can J Microbiol 22:1756-1761
12. Lu CC, Tang FJ, Yoichiro U, Kou GH, Chen SN (1997) Yeast infection in prawns (Macrobrachium rosenbergii de Man) in Taiwan. Acta Zool Taiwanica 8:33-45
13. Lu CC, Tang KFG, Chen SN (1998) Identification and genetic characterization of yeast isolated from freshwater prawns, Macrobrachium rosenbergii de Man, in Taiwan. J Fish Dis 21:185-192
14. New MB (1995) Status of freshwater prawn farming: a review. Aquac Res 3:46-65
15. Rzhetsky A, Nei M 1993. Theoretical foundation of the minimum-evolution method of phylogenetic inference. Mol Biol Evol 10:1073-1095
16. Saitou N, Nei M (1987) The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees. Mol Biol Evol 1 4:406-425
17. Spencer JFT, Phaff HJ, Gardner NR (1964) Metschnikowia kanienskii, sp. n., a yeast associated with brine shrimp. J Bacteriol 88:758-762
18. Stewart-Tull DE, Ng FK, Wardlaw AC (1984) Factors affecting the lethality of Campylobacter fetus subspecies jejuni in mice. J Med Microbiol 18:27-37
19. Van Uden N, Castelo-Branco R (1961) Metschnikowia zobellii sp. nov. and M. krissii sp. nov., two yeasts from the Pacific Ocean pathogenic for Daphnia magna. J Gen Microbiol 26:141-148