Cryptococcus lacticolor sp. nov. and Rhodotorula oligophaga sp. nov., novel yeasts isolated from the nasal smear microbiota of Queensland koalas kept in Japanese zoological parks

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 83-93

  Satoh, Kazuo ^a   Maeda, Mari ^a   Umeda, Yoshiko ^a   Sugamata, Miho ^a,b   Makimura, Koichi ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Tochigi Institute of Clinical Pathology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cryptococcosis; Cryptococcus; Koala; Phascolarctos cinereus; Rhodotorula; Yeasts

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS LACTICOLOR; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; KOALA; MALE; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOTORULA; RHODOTORULA OLIGOPHAGA; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; BASE SEQUENCE; BREEDING; CARRIER STATE; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; FUNGI; JAPAN; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOLOGY; NASAL CAVITY; PHASCOLARCTIDAE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; QUEENSLAND; RHODOTORULA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; PHASCOLARCTIDAE; PHASCOLARCTOS CINEREUS; RHODOTORULA MINUTA;

EID: 84878873041     PISSN: 00036072     EISSN: 15729699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10482-013-9928-y     Document Type: Article

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