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Ikechukwu Okoli1, Christie A Oyeka, Kyung J Kwon-Chung, Bart Theelen, Vincent Robert, Johannes Z Groenewald, Diane C McFadden, Arturo Casadevall, Teun Boekhout.
Abstract
Five yeast isolates obtained from cashew tree flowers in Nigeria resembled Cryptococcus neoformans phenotypically by producing brown pigmented colonies on niger seed agar, expressing a capsule, and being able to grow at 37 degrees C. However, rRNA gene sequences, including the 18S rRNA gene, the D1/D2 domains of the 26S rRNA gene and the ITS1+2 regions, suggested that these yeasts form a basal lineage within the Trichosporonales (Tremellomycetidae, Hymenomycetes, Basidiomycota, Fungi). Since the isolates could not be identified with any known genus and species within the Trichosporonales, we describe them as Cryptotrichosporon anacardii gen. et sp. nov. with CBS 9551(T) (=NRRL Y-27671) as the type strain. The taxonomic conflict between phenetic and molecular classification schemes within this group of fungi is discussed, and is resolved in favor of the latter.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID： 17002780 DOI： 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2006.00164.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: FEMS Yeast Res ISSN： 1567-1356 Impact factor: 2.796