Cletus P Kurtzman
Microbial Genomics and Bioprocessing Research
Supervisory Microbiologist
Phone: (309) 681-6561
Fax: (309) 681-6672
Room 2057A USDA, ARS, NCAUR, MGB
1815 N UNIVERSITY ST PEORIA, IL, 61604-0000
Blackwell, M., Kurtzman, C.P., Lachance, M., Suh, S. 2009. Saccharomycotina, Saccharomycetales. Available: http://www.tolweb.org/Saccharomycotina/29043/2009.01.22
Kurtzman, C.P., Robnett, C.J., Basehoar Powers, E.A. 2008. Phylogenetic relationships among species of Pichia, Issatchenkia and Williopsis determined from multigene sequence analysis, and the proposal of Barnettozyma gen. nov., Lindnera gen. nov. and Wickerhamomyces gen. nov. Federation of European Microbiological Societies Yeast Research. 8:939-954.
Manitchotpisit, P., Leathers, T.D., Li, X., Kurtzman, C.P., Eveleigh, D.E., Prasongsuk, S., Punnapayak, H. 2007. Genetic Diversity of Tropical Isolates and Color Variants of Aureobasidium pullulans [abstract]. Society of Industrial Microbiology Annual Meeting. Abstract S116, p. 113.
Kurtzman, C.P., Albertyn, J., Basehoar Powers, E.A. 2007. Multigene phylogenetic analysis of the Lipomycetaceae and the proposed transfer of Zygozyma species to Lipomyces and Babjevia anomala to Dipodascopsis. Federation Of European Microbiological Societies Yeast Research. 7:1027-1034.
Levinson, W.E., Kurtzman, C.P., Kuo, T. 2007. Characterization of Yarrowia lipolytica and related species for citric acid production from glycerol. Enzyme and Microbial Technology. 41:292-295.
Kurtzman, C.P. 2007. Eleven new species of Sugiyamaella and Candida from forest habitats. Federation Of European Microbiological Societies Yeast Research. 7(6):1046-1063.
Kurtzman, C.P. 2007. Blastobotrys americana sp. nov., B. illinoisensis sp. nov., B. malaysiensis sp. nov., B. muscicola sp. nov., B. peoriensis sp. nov. and B. raffinofermentans sp. nov., six anamorphic yeast species. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 57:1154-1162.
Page, B.T., Shields, C.E., Merz, W.G., Kurtzman, C.P. 2006. Rapid identfication of ascomycetous yeasts from clinical specimens by a molecular-based flow cytometry method and comparision with identifications from phenotypic assays. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 44(9):3167-3171.
Hibbett, S.A., Binder, M., Bischoff, J. F., Blackwell, M., Cannon, P. F., Eriksson, O. E., Huhndorf, S., James, T., Kirk, P. M., Lücking, R., H. Lumbsch, T., Lutzoni , F., Matheny, P. B., Mclaughlin, D. J., Powell, M. J., Redhead , S., Schoch, C. L., Spatafora, J. W., Stalpers, J. A., Vilgalys, R., Aime, M. C., Aptroot, A., Bauer, R., Begerow, D., Benny, G. L., Castlebury, L. A., Crous, P. W., Dai, Y.-C., Gams, W., Geiser, D. M., Griffith, G. W., Gueidan, C., Hawksworth, D. L., Hestmark, G., Hosaka, K., Humber, R. A. , Hyde, K. D., Ironside, J. E., KLõljalg, U., Kurtzman, C. P., Larsson, K.-H., Lichtwardt, R., Longcore, J., Mi¿dlikowska, J., Miller, A. Moncalvo, J.-M., Mozley-Standridge, S., Oberwinkler, F., Parmasto, E., Reeb, V., Rogers, J. D., Roux, C., Ryvarden, L., Sampaio, J. P., Schüßler, A., Sugiyama, J., Thorn, R. G., Tibell, L., Untereiner, W. A., Walker, C., Wang, Z., Weir, A., Weiss, M., White, M. M., Winka, K., Yao, Y.-J., and Zhang, N. 2007. A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi. Mycological Research. 111:509-547.
Kurtzman, C.P., Robnett, C.J. 2007. Multigene phylogenetic analysis of the Trichomonascus, Wickerhamiella and Zygoascus yeast clades, and the proposal of Sugiyamaella gen. nov. and fourteen new species combinations. Federation Of European Microbiological Societies Yeast Research. 7:141-151.
Levinson, W.E., Kurtzman, C.P., Kuo, T. 2006. Production of itaconic acid by Pseudozyma antarctica NRRL Y-7808 under nitrogen-limited growth conditions. Enzyme and Microbial Technology. 39:824-827.
Kurtzman, C.P. 2006. New species and new combinations in the yeast genera Kregervanrija gen. nov., Saturnispora and Candida. Federation of European Microbiological Societies Yeast Research. 6(2):288-297.
Nakayashiki, T., Kurtzman, C.P., Edskes, H.K., Wickner, R.B. 2005. Evidence that the yeast prions [URE3] and [PSI+] are diseases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(30):10575-10580.
Kurtzman, C.P., James, S.A. 2006. Zygosaccharomyces and related genera. In: Blackburn, C. de W., editor. Food spoilage microorganisms. Cambridge, England: Woodhead Publishing. p. 289-305.
Kurtzman, C.P., Fell, J.W. 2006. Yeast systematics and phylogeny - implications of molecular identification methods for studies in ecology. In: Rosa, C.A. and Peter, G., editors. The Yeast Handbook. Germany:Springer-Verlag Berlin Herdelberg. p. 11-30.
Page, B.T., Kurtzman, C.P. 2005. Rapid identification of Candida and other clinically important yeast species by flow cytometry. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 43(9):4507-4514.
Kurtzman, C.P., Piskur, J. 2006. Taxonomy and phylogenetic diversity among the yeasts. In: Sunnerhagen, P. and Piskur, J., editors. Comparative Genomics: Using Fungi as Models. Vol. 15. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, Berlin. p. 29-46.
Kurtzman, C.P. 2005. Description of Komagataella phaffii sp. nov. and transfer of Pichia pseudopastoris to the methylotrophic yeast genus Komagataella. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 55:973-976.
Vaughan-Martini, A., Kurtzman, C.P., Meyer, S.A., O'Neill, E. 2005. Two new species in the pichia guilliermondii clade: pichia caribbica sp. nov., the ascosporic state of candida fermentati, and candida carpophila comb. nov.. Federation Of European Microbiological Societies Yeast Research. 5:463-469.
Kurtzman, C.P., Statzell-Tallman, A., Fell, J.W. 2004. Tetrapisispora fleetii sp. nov., an ascosporogenous yeast in the saccharomycetaceae. Studies in Mycology. 50:397-400.
Fell, J.W., Statzell-Tallman, A., Kurtzman, C.P. 2004. Lachancea meyersii sp. nov., an ascosporogenous yeast from mangrove regions in the Bahama Islands. Studies in Mycology. 50:359-363.
Kurtzman, C.P., Robnett, C.J., Ward, J.N., Brayton, C., Gorelick, P., Walsh, T.J. 2005. Multigene phylogenetic analyses of pathogenic Candida species in the Kazachstania (Arxiozyma) telluris complex and the description of their ascosporic states as Kazachstania bovina sp. nov., K. heterogenica sp. nov., K. pintolopesii sp. nov., and K. slooffiae sp. nov. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 43(1):101-111.
Liu, Z., Slininger, P.J., Dien, B.S., Berhow, M.A., Kurtzman, C.P., Gorsich, S.W. 2004. Adaptive response of yeasts to furfural and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural and new chemical evidence for hmf conversion to 2,5-bis-hydroxymethylfuran. Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology. 31:345-352. Available http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10295-004-0148-3.
Kurtzman, C.P. 2004. Trichomonascus petasosporus sp. nov. and Sympodiomyces indianaensis sp. nov., two new members of the Saccharomycetales. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek. 85:297-204.
Kurtzman, C.P. 2003. Phylogenetic circumscription of Saccharomyces, Kluyveromyces and other members of the Saccharomycetaceae, and the proposal of the new genera Lachancea, Nakaseomyces, Naumovia, Vanderwaltozyma and Zygotorulaspora. Federation of European Microbiological Societies Yeast Research. 4:233-245.
Gimenez-Jurado, G., Kurtzman, C.P., Starmer, W.T., Spencer-Martins, I. 2003. Metschnikowia vanudenii sp. nov. and Metschnikowia lachancei sp. nov., from flowers and associated insects in North America. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 53:1665-1670.
KURTZMAN, C.P., FELL, J.W., ROBERT, V., BOEKHOUT, T. METHODS TO IDENTIFY YEAST. BOOK CHAPTER. BOEKHOUT, T., ROBERT, V. EDITORS. B. BEHR'S VERLAG GMBH& CO. HAMBURG, GERMANY. YEASTS IN FOOD. 2003. P. 69-121.
KURTZMAN, C.P., ROBNETT, C.J. PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS AMONG YEASTS OF THE "SACCHAROMYCES COMPLEX" DETERMINED FROM MULTIGENE SEQUENCE ANALYSES. FEDERATION OF EUROPEAN MICROBIOLOGICAL SOCIETIES YEAST RESEARCH. 2003. V. 3. P. 417-432.
Tomaszewski, E.K., Logan, K.E., Snowden, K.F., Kurtzman, C.P., Phalen, D.N. 2003. Phylogenetic analysis identifies the "megabacterium" of birds as a novel anamorphic Ascomycetous yeast, Macrorhabdus ornithogaster gen. nov, sp. nov. International Journal of Systmatic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 53:1201-1205.
ERIKSSON, O.E., BARAL, H.O., CURRAH, R.S., HANSEN, K., KURTZMAN, C.P., LAESSOE, T., RAMBOLD, G. NOTES ON ASCOMYCETE SYSTEMATICS NOS 3580-3623. MYCONET. 2003. V. 9. P. 91-103.
ERIKSSON, O.E., BARAL, H.O., CURRAH, R.S., HANSEN, K., KURTZMAN, C.P., KAESSOE, T., RAMBOLD, G. NOTES ON ASCOMYCETE SYSTEMATICS NOS 3303-3579. MYCONET. 2002. V. 8. P. 1-54.
BOEKHOUT, T., ROBERT, V., SMITH, M.T., STALPERS, J., YARROW, D., BOER, P., GIJSWIJT, G., KURTZMAN, C.P., FELL, J.W., GUEHO, E. YEASTS OF THE WORLD - MORPHOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY, SEQUENCES AND IDENTIFICATION. CD ROM. BIODIVERSITY CENTER OF ETI, AMSTERDAM. 2002.