Candida wancherniae sp. nov. and Candida morakotiae sp. nov., two novel ascomycetous anamorphic yeast species found in Thailand

DNA barcoding revealed Nematodospora valgi gen. nov., sp. nov. and Candida cetoniae sp. nov. in the Lodderomyces clade

“…The resulting trees always had low support for the major subclades and high support for the internal branches. Candida morakotiae and C. sakaeoensis were isolated from mushroom and various plant species collected in Thailand (Nakase et al 2009;Limtong et al 2012). Candida verbasci was isolated from flowers collected in Georgia (Sipiczki 2013).…”

“…The clade includes an additional 30 anamorphic Candida species, among them the major human pathogens Candida albicans, Candida dubliniensis, Candida parapsilosis, Candida metapsilosis, Candida orthopsilosis, and Candida tropicalis (Lachance et al 2011a). Members of the clade were isolated from various sources, such as marine habitats, food, plants, and soil (Lachance et al 2011;Nitiyon et al 2011;Nakase et al 2009;Limtong et al 2012;Sipicszki 2013), soft drinks (Chang et al 2012), and human and animals (Weems 1991;Wingard 1995;Trofa et al 2008;Cooper 2011;Kim & Sudbery 2011;Lachance et al 2011a). Studies conducted in different geographic regions showed that insects frequently host yeasts belonging to the Lodderomyces clade, including the human pathogens (Nguyen et al 2007;Suh et al 2008;Ji et al 2009, Urbina 2012.…”

Candida tanticharoeniae sp. nov., a novel anamorphic yeast species found in Thailand

“…Since the fi rst report of new yeast species found in Thailand (Nakase et al, 1991), more than fi fty new yeast species have been reported from Thailand (Nakase et al, 2009). In 2001, we isolated a yeast strain which is distant from any currently known species of yeast in the phylogenetic tree based on the D1/D2 domain sequences of the LSU rRNA genes and which apparently represents a novel species of anamorphic yeast.…”

Candida asiatica sp. nov., an anamorphic ascomycetous yeast species isolated from natural samples from Thailand, Taiwan, and Japan

“…Species of this genus have been isolated from various sources in terrestrial and aquatic habitats. In recent years, many novel Candida species have been described from strains isolated in Thailand, Taiwan, and Japan from various natural samples, e.g., soils, estuarine waters, sediments in mangrove forests, insect frasses, and beetle galleries (Boonmak et al 2009;Endo et al 2008;Limtong et al 2007bLimtong et al , 2008Limtong et al , 2010Liu et al 2008;Nakase et al 2009). Phylogenetic analysis showed that these novel species are distributed in various clades, e.g., Ambrosiozyma, Metschnikowia, Pichia, Saturnispora, Wickerhamomyces, and Yarrowia.…”