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Three new insect-associated species of the yeast genus Candida
1Microbial Properties Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture, Peoria, IL 61604-3999, USA. kurtzman@mail.ncaur.usda.gov
Canadian Journal of Microbiology
|February 6, 1999
Abstract:
Three new species of Candida are described that were determined to be genetically isolated from all other currently accepted ascomycetous yeasts based on their sequence divergence in the species-variable D1/D2 domain of large subunit (26S) ribosomal DNA. One of the species was isolated from an ambrosia beetle, whereas the other two were from the frass of wood-boring beetle larvae. The new species and their type strains are the following: Candida ontarioensis NRRL YB-1246 (CBS 8502), Candida tammaniensis NRRL Y-8257 (CBS 8504), and Candida trypodendroni NRRL Y-6488 (CBS 8505).