Candida flosculorum sp. nov. and Candida floris sp. nov., two yeast species associated with tropical flowers.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol, 2007/12;57(Pt 12):2970-2974.
Rosa CA[1], Pagnocca FC[2], Lachance MA[3], Ruivo CCC[2], Medeiros AO[1], Pimentel MRC[1], Fontenelle JCR[4], Martins RP[4]
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PMID: 18048759DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.65230-0
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Abstract
Two ascomycetous yeast species, Candida flosculorum sp. nov. and Candida floris sp. nov., were isolated from tropical flowers and their associated insects. C. flosculorum was isolated from flower bracts of Heliconia velloziana and Heliconia episcopalis (Heliconiaceae) collected from two Atlantic rain forest sites in Brazil. C. floris was isolated from flowers of Ipomoea sp. (Convolvulaceae) growing on the banks of the river Paraguai in the pantanal ecosystem in Brazil and from an adult of the stingless bee Trigona sp. and a flower of Merremia quinquefolia (Convolvulaceae) in Costa Rica. C. flosculorum belongs to the Metschnikowiaceae clade and C. floris belongs to the Starmerella clade. The type strain of C. flosculorum is UFMG-JL13(T) (=CBS 10566(T)=NRRL Y-48258(T)) and the type strain of C. floris is UWO(PS) 00-226.2(T) (=CBS 10593(T)=NRRL Y-48255(T)).
MeSH terms
Animals; Bees; Brazil; Candida; Costa Rica; DNA, Fungal; DNA, Ribosomal; Genes, rRNA; Heliconiaceae; Ipomoea; Microscopy, Phase-Contrast; Molecular Sequence Data; Phylogeny; RNA, Ribosomal; Sequence Analysis, DNA
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