%0 Journal Article %A Pontes, Ana %A Röhl, Oliver %A Maldonado, Cristina %A Yurkov, Andrey M. %A Sampaio, José Paulo %T Cryptotrichosporon argae sp. nov., Cryptotrichosporon brontae sp. nov. and Cryptotrichosporon steropae sp. nov., isolated from forest soils %D 2017 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 67 %N 9 %P 3610-3614 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002177 %K soil microbiology %K basidiomycete yeast %K Cryptotrichosporon %K Mediterranean forests %K new yeast species %I Microbiology Society, %X Yeast strains belonging to the basidiomycetous genus Cryptotrichosporon were isolated from forest soils in Serra da Arrábida Natural Park in Portugal. Similar to the already-known representatives of this genus, the new isolates formed pigmented colonies of a distinctive pale orange colour. Phylogenetic analyses employing concatenated sequences of the D1/D2 domains of the 26S (large subunit) rRNA gene and the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region supported the recognition of three novel species: Cryptotrichosporon argae sp. nov. (type strain CM 19T=CBS 14376T=PYCC 7010T=DSM 104550T; MycoBank accession number MB 817168), Cryptotrichosporon brontae sp. nov. (type strain CM 1562T=CBS 14303T=PYCC 7011T=DSM 104551T; MycoBank accession number MB 817077) and Cryptotrichosporon steropae sp. nov. (type strain OR 395T=CBS 14302T=PYCC 7012T=DSM 104552T; MycoBank accession number MB 817078). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002177