%0 Journal Article %A Péter, Gábor %A Dlauchy, Dénes %A Tornai-Lehoczki, Judit %T Candida floccosa sp. nov., a novel methanol-assimilating yeast species %D 2006 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 56 %N 8 %P 2015-2018 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64300-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X Two methanol-assimilating yeast strains were isolated from a flux of a sessile oak (Quercus petrea) in Hungary and one genetically and phenotypically very similar strain from a flux of a red oak (Quercus rubra) in Canada. The strains exhibited ascomycetous affinity but ascospore formation was not observed. On the basis of the sequence of their D1/D2 domain of the large subunit rDNA, as well as of their physiological characteristics, they represent a novel yeast species of the genus Candida. Therefore Candida floccosa sp. nov. is proposed, with NCAIM Y.01581T (=CBS 10307T=NRRL Y-27951T) as the type strain. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.64300-0