title: Sporobolomyces bannaensis, a novel ballistoconidium-forming yeast species in the Sporidiobolus lineage.
abstract: Among ballistoconidium-forming yeast strains isolated from various plant leaves collected in Banna, Yunnan Province, China, five strains that formed pink-coloured colonies and asymmetric ballistoconidia were classified in a single group and assigned to the genus Sporobolomyces by conventional and chemotaxonomic studies. Analyses of the internal transcribed spacer region and 26S rDNA D1/D2 domain sequences indicated that these strains represent a novel species with a close phylogenetic relationship to Sporobolomyces blumeae in the Sporidiobolus lineage, for which the name Sporobolomyces bannaensis sp. nov. is proposed (type strain Y41(T)=AS 2.2285(T)=CBS 9204(T)).
authors.affiliation: Systematic Mycology and Lichenology Laboratory, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China.
authors.forename: Jian-Hua
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Feng-Yan
authors.initials: FY
authors.lastname: Bai
authors.forename: Qi-Ming
authors.initials: QM
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jian-Hua
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Jia
mesh_terms: D001487:Basidiomycota / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002681:China; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D013045:Species Specificity; D015003:Yeasts / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification