Two yeast species Cystobasidium psychroaquaticum f.a. sp. nov. and Cystobasidium rietchieii f.a. sp. nov. isolated from natural environments, and the transfer of Rhodotorula minuta clade members to the genus Cystobasidium

Yurkov, Andrey M.;Begerow, Dominik;Boekhout, Teun;Gouliamova, Dilnora E;Kachalkin, Aleksey V.;et.al.
(2015) Antonie van Leeuwenhoek : international journal of general and molecular microbiology — Vol. 107, n° 1, p. 173-185 (2015)

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  • Yurkov, Andrey M.Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Brunswick, Germany
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  • Begerow, DominikGeobotanik, Fakultät für Biologie und Biotechnologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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  • Boekhout, TeunCBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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  • Gouliamova, Dilnora EDepartment of General Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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  • Daniel, Heide-MarieUCLouvain
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  • Kachalkin, Aleksey V.Faculty of Soil Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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Abstract
Many species of dimorphic basidiomycetes are known only in their asexual phase and typically those pigmented in different hues of red have been classified in the large polyphyletic genus Rhodotorula. These yeasts are ubiquitous and include a few species of some clinical relevance. The phylogenetic distribution of Rhodotorula spans three classes: Microbotryomycetes, Cystobasidiomycetes and Exobasidiomycetes. Here, the presented multi-gene analyses resolved phylogenetic relationships between the second largest group of Rhodotorula and the mycoparasite Cystobasidium fimetarium (Cystobasidiales, Cystobasidiomycetes, Pucciniomycotina). Based on the results, we propose the transfer of nine species belonging to the Rhodotorula minuta clade into the genus Cystobasidium. As a result, the clinically relevant species R. minuta will be renamed Cystobasidium minutum. This proposal follows ongoing reassessments of the anamorphic genus Rhodotorula reducing the polyphyly of this genus. The delimitation of the R. minuta clade from Rhodotorula species comprised in Sporidiobolales including the type species Rhodotorula glutinis is an important step to overcome obsolete generic placements of asexual basidiomycetous yeasts. Our proposal will also help to distinguish most common red yeasts from clinical samples such as members of Sporidiobolales and Cystobasidiales. The diagnosis of the genus Cystobasidium is amended by including additional characteristics known for the related group of species. The taxonomic change enables us to classify two novel species with the phylogenetically related members of the R. minuta clade in Cystobasidium.
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Yurkov, A. M., Begerow, D., Boekhout, T., Gouliamova, D. E., Zalar, P., de Garcia, V., Libkind, D., Groenewald, M., Daniel, H.-M., & Kachalkin, A. V. (2015). Two yeast species Cystobasidium psychroaquaticum f.a. sp. nov. and Cystobasidium rietchieii f.a. sp. nov. isolated from natural environments, and the transfer of Rhodotorula minuta clade members to the genus Cystobasidium. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek : international journal of general and molecular microbiology, 107(1), 173-185. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-014-0315-0 (Original work published 2015)