Cryptococcus yokohamensis sp. nov., a basidiomycetous yeast isolated from trees and a Queensland koala kept in a Japanese zoological park

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3068-3071

  Alshahni, Mohamed Mahdi ^a,b   Makimura, Koichi ^a   Satoh, Kazuo ^a   Nishiyama, Yayoi ^a   Kido, Nobuhide ^c   Sawada, Takuo ^b  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIPPON VETERINARY AND LIFE SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Kanazawa Zoological Garden Animal Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; CRYPTOCOCCUS; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; KOALA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TREE; TREMELLALES; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHASCOLARCTIDAE; PHYLOGENY; QUEENSLAND; TREES;

EID: 83055170060     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.027144-0     Document Type: Article

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