title: Wickerhamiella dulcicola sp. nov. and Wickerhamiella cachassae sp. nov., yeasts isolated from cachaça fermentation in Brazil.
abstract: Six strains of two novel yeast species were isolated from sugar-cane juice and fermentation vats of cachaça production in Brazil. The sequences of the D1/D2 domains of the large-subunit rRNA gene showed that these species belong to the Wickerhamiella clade, and their closest described relative in terms of sequence similarity is Candida (iter. nom. Wickerhamiella) drosophilae. The type strain of Wickerhamiella cachassae sp. nov. is UFMG-D5L7(T) ( = CBS 12587(T)  = CBMAI 1469(T)) and the type strain of Wickerhamiella dulcicola sp. nov. is UFMG-TOL15(T) ( = CBS 12588(T)  = CBMAI 1468(T)).
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Microbiologia, ICB, CP 486, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG 31270-901, Brazil.
authors.forename: Fernanda
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Badotti
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Microbiologia, ICB, CP 486, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG 31270-901, Brazil.
authors.forename: Pollyana A B
authors.initials: PAB
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Microbiologia, ICB, CP 486, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG 31270-901, Brazil.
authors.forename: Michelle C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Mendonça
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Química, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG 30421-169, Brazil.
authors.forename: Fatima C O
authors.initials: FCO
authors.lastname: Gomes
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio de Microbiologia Ambiental e Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Palmas, TO 77020-220, Brazil.
authors.forename: Paula B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Morais
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada.
authors.forename: Marc-André
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Lachance
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Microbiologia, ICB, CP 486, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG 31270-901, Brazil.
authors.forename: Carlos A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Rosa
mesh_terms: D000434:Alcoholic Beverages / Q000382:microbiology*; D001938:Brazil; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000235:genetics; D005285:Fermentation; D005516:Food Microbiology; D020459:Genes, rRNA; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D004718:Saccharomycetales / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D004271:DNA, Fungal