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. 1978 Nov;136(2):815–817. doi: 10.1128/jb.136.2.815-817.1978

Thermal adaptation in yeast: obligate psychrophiles are obligate aerobes, and obligate thermophiles are facultative anaerobes.

K Watson, H Arthur, H Morton
PMCID: PMC218612  PMID: 568620

Abstract

The obligate psychrophilic yeasts Torulopsis psychrophila, T. austromarina, Leucosporidium frigidum, L. gelidum, and L. nivalis were obligate aerobes and were unable to grow anaerobically. In contrast, the obligate thermophilic yeasts T. bovina, T. pintolopesii, Candida slooffii, and Saccharomyces telluris were facultative anaerobes.

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