Candida floccosa sp. nov., a novel methanol-assimilating yeast species.
Two methanol-assimilating yeast strains were isolated from a flux of a sessile oak (Quercus petrea) in Hungary and one genetically and phenotypically very similar strain from a flux of a red oak (Quercus rubra) in Canada. The strains exhibited ascomycetous affinity but ascospore formation was not observed. On the basis of the sequence of their D1/D2 domain of the large subunit rDNA, as well as of their physiological characteristics, they represent a novel yeast species of the genus Candida. Therefore Candida floccosa sp. nov. is proposed, with NCAIM Y.01581(T) (=CBS 10307(T)=NRRL Y-27951(T)) as the type strain.
Péter
Gábor
G
National Collection of Agricultural and Industrial Micro-organisms, Corvinus University of Budapest, Faculty of Food Sciences, Somlói út 14-16, H-1118 Budapest, Hungary.
Dlauchy
Dénes
D
National Collection of Agricultural and Industrial Micro-organisms, Corvinus University of Budapest, Faculty of Food Sciences, Somlói út 14-16, H-1118 Budapest, Hungary.
Tornai-Lehoczki
Judit
J
National Collection of Agricultural and Industrial Micro-organisms, Corvinus University of Budapest, Faculty of Food Sciences, Somlói út 14-16, H-1118 Budapest, Hungary.
D002175:Candida / Q000145:classification* / Q000378:metabolism; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000235:genetics; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal / Q000235:genetics; D000432:Methanol / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D029963:Quercus / Q000382:microbiology
D004271:DNA, Fungal; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal; D000432:Methanol