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Isolation of Culturable Yeasts and Molds from Soils to Investigate Fungal Population Structure
Published on: May 27, 2022
Lipomyces orientalis sp. nov., a yeast species isolated from soil in Vietnam
1Department of Microbiology, Food Industries Research Institute, 301-Nguyen Trai, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Abstract:
Five strains of the novel ascogenous yeast species Lipomyces orientalis sp. nov. were isolated from soil samples collected in Vietnam. The yeast forms asci containing one to four ascospores. The ascospores of L. orientalis have warty surfaces and differ from the characteristic striated ascospores of Lipomyces tetrasporus. Phylogenetic analyses of D1/D2 26S rDNA and ITS sequences indicate that L. orientalis and L. tetrasporus are closely related, but they differ from each other by 6 nucleotides in the D1/D2 region and 16 nucleotides in the ITS region. The type culture is strain Lip 95(T) (=CBS 10300(T)=NRRL Y-27927(T)).
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