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Five novel species of the anamorphic genus Candida in the Cyberlindnera clade isolated from natural substrates in Taiwan

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Twelve strains representing five novel yeast species were isolated from natural samples distributed in mountain areas in Taiwan during 2007 and 2009. Sequence analysis of the D1/D2 domain of the large subunit (LSU) rRNA gene revealed that these species are members of the Cyberlindnera clade. These five new species have a greater than 1% difference from their closest relatives in the sequences of the D1/D2 domain of the LSU rRNA gene and were well separated from their closest relatives in terms of physiological characteristics. Moreover, a sexual state could not be found in these five novel yeast species. Therefore, the scientific names of Candida maesa sp. nov. (type strain GJ8L01T), Candida takata sp. nov. (type strain EN25S01T), Candida taoyuanica sp. nov. (type strain GY15S07T), Candida hungchunana sp. nov. (type strain NC3W71T) and Candida stauntonica sp. nov. (type strain GY13L05T) were proposed to accommodate these yeasts.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by a Taiwan-Russia joint Grant-in-Aid from the National Science Council (NSC), Executive Yuan, Taiwan (NSC 99-2923-B-134-001-MY3), and Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), Russia (No.10-04-92008). The authors thank Dr. Shing-Fan Huang and Dr. Edelgard Fu-Tschin Tschen for identification of plants and mushrooms as samples in this study, respectively.

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  1. Department of Applied Science, National Hsinchu University of Education, 521 Nanda Rd., Hsinchu, 30014, Taiwan

    Chin-Feng Chang, Yi-Ru Liu & Ching-Fu Lee

  2. Department of Hospitality Management, Chu Hwa University of Medical Technology, 91 Wenhua 1st Street, Zender, 717, Tainan, Taiwan

    Shan-Fu Chen

  3. State Research Institute of Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms, Moscow, 117545, Russia

    Gennadi I. Naumov & Elena S. Naumova

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Chang, CF., Liu, YR., Chen, SF. et al. Five novel species of the anamorphic genus Candida in the Cyberlindnera clade isolated from natural substrates in Taiwan. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 102, 9–21 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-012-9708-0

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