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Published on: July 19, 2021
Sympodiomycopsis yantaiensis sp. nov., a basidiomycetous yeast isolated from insect frass
Liang Chen1, Lin Zhang1, Zhi-Hui Li1
1College of Life Science and Technology, Nanyang Normal University, Nanyang 473061, PR China.
Abstract:
Two strains (NYNU 121010(T) and NYNU 121032) of a novel basidiomycetous yeast species belonging to the genus Sympodiomycopsis were isolated from insect frass collected from trunks of a pagoda tree (Sophora japonica L.) in Yantai, Shandong province, east China. The sequence analyses of the D1/D2 domain of the large subunit (LSU) rRNA gene and the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region indicated that the closest relatives were Sympodiomycopsis kandeliae FIRDI 007(T), Sympodiomycopsis paphiopedili CBS 7429(T) and Sympodiomycopsis sp. S6A. The D1/D2 sequences of the novel strains differed by 12 nt substitutions (2%) from the type strain of S. kandeliae, and by 13 nt substitutions (2.2%) from the type strain of S. paphiopedili and from Sympodiomycopsis sp. S6A. The novel strains differed from closely related species by more than 4.6% substitutions in the ITS region. The novel strains can also be distinguished from S. kandeliae and S. paphiopedili on the basis of a number of morphological and physiological characteristics and represent a novel species in the genus Sympodiomycopsis, for which the name Sympodiomycopsis yantaiensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is NYNU 121010(T) ( =CICC 32998(T) = CBS 12813(T)). The Mycobank deposit number is MB 804119.
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