%0 Journal Article %A Carreiro, Solange C. %A Pagnocca, Fernando C. %A Bacci, Maurício %A Lachance, Marc-André %A Bueno, Odair C. %A Hebling, Maria José A. %A Ruivo, Carla C. C. %A Rosa, Carlos A. %T Sympodiomyces attinorum sp. nov., a yeast species associated with nests of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens %D 2004 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 54 %N 5 %P 1891-1894 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63200-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X Four strains of a novel yeast species were isolated from laboratory nests of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens in Brazil. Three strains were found in older sponges and one was in a waste deposit in the ant nests. Sequencing of the D1/D2 region of the large-subunit rRNA gene showed that the novel species, named Sympodiomyces attinorum sp. nov., is phylogenetically related to Sympodiomyces parvus. Unlike Sympodiomyces parvus, Sympodiomyces attinorum can ferment glucose, assimilate methyl α-d-glucoside, salicin and citrate, and grow at 37 °C, thus enabling these two species to be distinguished. Differentiation from other related species is possible on the basis of other growth characteristics. The type strain of Sympodiomyces attinorum is UNESP-S156T (=CBS 9734T=NRRL Y-27639T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.63200-0