Wickerhamomyces siamensis sp. nov., a novel yeast species isolated from the phylloplane in Thailand.

Int J Syst Evol Microbiol, 2013/4;63(Pt 4):1568-1573.

Kaewwichian R[1], Kawasaki H[2], Limtong S[1]

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PMID: 23396723DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.050013-0

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Abstract
Strain DMKU-RK359(T), representing a novel yeast species, was isolated from the external surface of a sugar-cane leaf collected in Thailand. On the basis of morphological, biochemical, physiological and chemotaxonomic characteristics, sequence analysis of the D1/D2 region of the large-subunit (LSU) rRNA gene and the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region, strain DMKU-RK359(T) was assigned to a novel Wickerhamomyces species. The novel species was closest to Wickerhamomyces ciferrii, but differed from it by 0.7 % nucleotide substitutions in the D1/D2 region of the LSU rRNA gene and 6 % nucleotide substitutions in the ITS region. The name Wickerhamomyces siamensis sp. nov. is proposed (type strain DMKU-RK359(T)  = BCC 50732(T)  = NBRC 108900(T)  = CBS 12570(T)).
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