Draft Genome Sequence of a Highly Heterozygous Yeast Strain from the Metschnikowia pulcherrima Subclade, UCD127

Abstract

<i>Metschnikowia</i> strain UCD127 was isolated from soil in Ireland and sequenced. It is a highly heterozygous diploid strain with 385,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Its ribosomal DNA has the highest similarity to that of <i>M. chrysoperlae</i>, but its <i>ACT1</i> and <i>TEF1</i> loci and mitochondrial genome show affinity to those of <i>M. fructicola</i>, whose genome is significantly larger.