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DNA relatedness among species of the genus Zygosaccharomyces
Author(s) -
Kurtzman C. P.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
yeast
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.923
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1097-0061
pISSN - 0749-503X
DOI - 10.1002/yea.320060306
Subject(s) - biology , saccharomyces , botany , genus , yeast , zoology , nuclear dna , saccharomyces cerevisiae , genetics , mitochondrial dna , gene
The extent of nuclear DNA complementarity was determined for members of the genus Zygosaccharomyces . From these comparisons, nine species have been identified: Z. baillii, Z. bisporus, Z. cidri, Z. fermentati, Z. florentinus, Z. mellis, Z. microellipsoides, Z. mrakii , and Z. riuxii. Candida mogii , the proposed anamorph of Z. rouxii , showed low relatedness to all nine species. The recently described Saccharomyces astigiensis and S. albasitensis were conspecific with Z. fermentati , and S. placentae showed high relatedness with Z. rouxii . Growth tests were defined that allow recognition of all Zygosaccharomyces species.