Cryptococcus terrestris sp. nov., a tremellaceous, anamorphic yeast phylogenetically related to Cryptococcus flavescens

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 631-636

  Crestani, Juliana ^a   Landell, Melissa Fontes ^a   Faganello, Josiane ^a   Vainstein, Marilene Henning ^a   Vishniac, Helen Simpson ^b   Valente, Patrícia ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 26S; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; NITRATE; NITRITE;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS FLAVESCENS; CRYPTOCOCCUS TERRESTRIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FOREST SOIL; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS ISOLATION; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UNITED STATES;

CRYPTOCOCCUS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; OKLAHOMA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; CRYPTOCOCCUS (TREMELLALES); CRYPTOCOCCUS (TREMELLOMYCETIDAE); CRYPTOCOCCUS (TRICHOSPORONALES); CRYPTOCOCCUS AUREUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS FLAVESCENS; TREMELLALES;

EID: 70350641798     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.001800-0     Document Type: Article

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