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Three strains (JCM 15063T, JCM 15098 and JCM 15099) of a novel basidiomycetous yeast species belonging to the genus Sporobolomyces were isolated from nasal smears of Queensland koalas kept in a Japanese zoological park. Analyses of sequences of the nuclear rDNA internal transcribed spacer region and the 26S rDNA D1/D2 domain and morphological studies indicated that these strains represent a novel species with a close phylogenetic relationship to Sporobolomyces carnicolor and Sporobolomyces japonicus in the Sporidiobolus lineage, for which the name Sporobolomyces koalae sp. nov. is proposed (type strain JCM 15063T =CBS 10914T =DSM 19992T).
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International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology vol. 58 , part 12, pp. 2983 - 2986
Supplementary Fig. S1. Phylogenetic tree drawn from neighbour-joining analysis of nuclear rDNA ITS sequences, depicting the relationships of strains of Sporobolomyces koalae sp. nov. with closely related species. [PDF](19 KB)