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Spathaspora arborariae sp. nov., a d-xylose-fermenting yeast species isolated from rotting wood in Brazil

  1. Raquel M. Cadete1,
  2. Renata O. Santos1,
  3. Monaliza A. Melo1,
  4. Adriane Mouro2,
  5. Davi L. Gonçalves2,
  6. Boris U. Stambuk2,
  7. Fátima C.O. Gomes3,
  8. Marc-André Lachance4,
  9. Carlos A. Rosa1

Article first published online: 7 SEP 2009

DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2009.00582.x

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FEMS Yeast Research

FEMS Yeast Research

Volume 9, Issue 8, pages 1338–1342, December 2009

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Cadete, R. M., Santos, R. O., Melo, M. A., Mouro, A., Gonçalves, D. L., Stambuk, B. U., Gomes, F. C., Lachance, M.-A. and Rosa, C. A. (2009), Spathaspora arborariae sp. nov., a d-xylose-fermenting yeast species isolated from rotting wood in Brazil. FEMS Yeast Research, 9: 1338–1342. doi: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2009.00582.x

Author Information

  1. 1

    Departamento de Microbiologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

  2. 2

    Departamento de Bioquímica, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil

  3. 3

    Departamento de Química, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil; and

  4. 4

    Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

*Correspondence: Carlos A. Rosa, Departamento de Microbiologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, C.P. 486, Belo Horizonte, MG 31270-901, Brazil. Tel.: +55 31 3409 2751; fax: +55 31 3409 2630; e-mail: carlrosa@icb.ufmg.br

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 28 OCT 2009
  2. Article first published online: 7 SEP 2009
  3. Received 3 July 2009; revised 27 August 2009; accepted 29 August 2009.Final version published online 10 October 2009.

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Keywords:

  • new yeast species;
  • Spathaspora arborariae;
  • d-xylose-fermenting yeast;
  • rotting wood;
  • tropical ecosystems

Abstract

Four strains of a new yeast species were isolated from rotting wood from two sites in an Atlantic Rain Forest and a Cerrado ecosystem in Brazil. The analysis of the sequences of the D1/D2 domains of the large-subunit rRNA gene showed that this species belongs to the Spathaspora clade. The new species ferments d-xylose efficiently and is related to Candida jeffriesii and Spathaspora passalidarum, both of which also ferment d-xylose. Similar to S. passalidarum, the new species produces unconjugated asci with a single greatly elongated ascospore with curved ends. The type strain of Spathaspora arborariae sp. nov. is UFMG-HM19.1AT (=CBS11463T=NRRL Y-48658T).

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