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Finding of dairy yeasts Kluyveromyces lactis var. lactis in natural habitats

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Well-known yeasts Kluyveromyces lactis var. lactis, which are usually associated with dairy products, were discovered in nature: in woodland park soil under Impatiens glandulifera Royle plants. Reliable identification of the yeasts was carried out using physiological criteria (lactose and maltose utilization) and molecular markers (nucleotide sequence of the 5.8S-ITS rDNA fragment, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, and Southern hybridization of chromosomal DNA with the LAC4 probe). Ecology of Kl. lactis var. lactis is discussed.

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  1. Research and Educational Center for Biomedical Technologies, All-Russian Research Institute for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    G. I. Naumov & E. S. Naumova

  2. Research Institute for Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms, Moscow, Russia

    G. I. Naumov & E. S. Naumova

  3. Faculty of Soil Sciences, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    A. M. Glushakova, A. V. Kachalkin & I. Yu. Chernov

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Original Russian Text © G.I. Naumov, E.S. Naumova, A.M. Glushakova, A.V. Kachalkin, I.Yu. Chernov, 2014, published in Mikrobiologiya, 2014, Vol. 83, No. 6, pp. 677–681.

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Naumov, G.I., Naumova, E.S., Glushakova, A.M. et al. Finding of dairy yeasts Kluyveromyces lactis var. lactis in natural habitats. Microbiology 83, 782–786 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0026261714060125

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