Cryptotrichosporon anacardii gen. nov., sp. nov., a new trichosporonoid capsulate basidiomycetous yeast from Nigeria that is able to form melanin on niger seed agar

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 339-350

  Okoli, Ikechukwu ^a   Oyeka, Christie A ^a   Kwon Chung, Kyung J ^b   Theelen, Bart ^c   Robert, Vincent ^c   Groenewald, Johannes Z ^c   McFadden, Diane C ^d   Casadevall, Arturo ^d   Boekhout, Teun ^c  

^a NNAMDI AZIKIWE UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Basidiomycetous yeast; Cryptococcus neoformans; Cryptotrichosporon anacardii; Monophyly; Taxonomic conflict; Trichosporonales

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; CASHEW NUT; CRYPTOTRICHOSPORON ANACARDII; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; YEAST;

AGAR; ANACARDIUM; ASTERACEAE; BASIDIOMYCOTA; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FLOWERS; MELANINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; NIGERIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANACARDIUM OCCIDENTALE; BASIDIOMYCOTA; CRYPTOTRICHOSPORON ANACARDII; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; GUIZOTIA ABYSSINICA; HYMENOMYCETES; TREMELLOMYCETIDAE; TRICHOSPORONALES;

EID: 33846996350     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: 15671364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2006.00164.x     Document Type: Article

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