@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-37-4-380, author = "Vaughan Martini, Ann and Martini, Alessandro", title = "Taxonomic Revision of the Yeast Genus Kluyveromyces by Nuclear Deoxyribonucleic Acid Reassociation", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "1987", volume = "37", number = "4", pages = "380-385", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-37-4-380", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-37-4-380", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "Deoxyribonucleic acid relatedness among the type strains of all taxa and known anamorphs assigned to the yeast genus Kluyveromyces was assessed by the optical reassociation technique. Three groups of species related at the 95% level or higher were found: (i) K. lactis including K. drosophilarum, K. phaseolosporus, K. vanudeni, and the anamorph Candida sphaerica; (ii) K. marxianus with K. bulgaricus, K. cicerisporus, K. fragilis, K. wikenii, and the anamorphs Candida kefyr, Candida macedoniensis, and Candida pseudotropicalis; (iii) K. thermotolerans with K. veronae and the anamorph Candida dattila. The remaining species, including the recently described K. blattae and K. waltii, are not related to each other or to the members of the above three groups. The nomen nudum K. cellobiovorus is not conspecific with any of the species of the genus. The species assignment obtained by nuclear deoxyribonucleic acid reassociation does not entirely conform with the previously proposed reorganization of the genus Kluyveromyces (J.-P. van der Walt and E. Johannsen, p. 224–251, in N. J. W. Kreger-van Rij, ed., The Yeasts. A Taxonomic Study, 1984).", }