TY - JOUR
T1 - Taxogenomic analyses of Starmerella gilliamiae f.a, sp. nov. and Starmerella monicapupoae f.a., sp. nov., two novel species isolated from plant substrates and insects
AU - Rosa, Carlos A.
AU - Santos, Ana Raquel O.
AU - Palmier, Kirsten
AU - Duell, Meghan
AU - Carvalho, Andrea O. S.
AU - Fernadez, Natalia V.
AU - Pimenta, Raphael S.
AU - Morais, Paula B.
AU - Araya, Macarena
AU - Cubillos, Francisco A.
AU - Pontes, Ana
AU - Aires, Andreia
AU - Gonçalves, Carla
AU - Gonçalves, Paula
AU - Sampaio, José Paulo
AU - Lachance, Marc André
N1 - Funding Information:
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F04378%2F2020/PT#
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/LA%2FP%2F0140%2F2020/PT#
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/3599-PPCDT/PTDC%2FBIA-EVL%2F1100%2F2020/PT#
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/Concurso de Projetos IC&DT em Todos os Domínios Científicos/PTDC%2FBIA-EVL%2F0604%2F2021/PT#
This work is part of the project “INCT Yeasts: Biodiversity, preservation and biotechnological innovation”, funded by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Brazil, grant #406564/2022-1. This work was also funded by CNPq – process numbers 435040/2018 and 408733/2021-7, Fundação do Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG, process numbers APQ-01525–14, APQ-01477–13 and APQ-02552–15) and the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (MAL).
The computation work was carried out with support of INCD (Portugal) funded by FCT and FEDER under grants 22153-01/SAICT/2016 and 2023.09581. CPCA.A1.
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PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Four yeast isolates collected from flowers from different ecosystems in Brazil, one from fruit of Nothofagus alpina in Argentina, three from flowers of Neltuma chilensis in Chile and one obtained from the proventriculus of a female bumblebee in Canada were demonstred, by analysis of the sequences of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region and D1/D2 domains of the large subunit rRNA gene, to represent two novel species of the genus Starmerella. These species are described here as Starmerella gilliamiae f.a, sp. nov. (CBS 16166T; Mycobank MB 851206) and Starmerella monicapupoae f.a., sp. nov. (PYCC 8997T; Mycobank MB 851207). The results of a phylogenomic analysis using 1037 single-copy orthogroups indicated that S. gilliamiae is a member of a subclade that contains Starmerella opuntiae, Starmerella aceti and Starmerella apicola. The results also indicated that S. monicapupoae is phylogenetically related to Starmerella riodocensis. The two isolates of S. monicapupoae were obtained from flowers in Brazil and were probably vectored by insects that visit these substrates. Starmerella gilliamiae has a wide geographi-cal distribution having been isolated in flowers from Brazil and Chile, fruit from Argentina and a bumblebee from Canada.
AB - Four yeast isolates collected from flowers from different ecosystems in Brazil, one from fruit of Nothofagus alpina in Argentina, three from flowers of Neltuma chilensis in Chile and one obtained from the proventriculus of a female bumblebee in Canada were demonstred, by analysis of the sequences of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region and D1/D2 domains of the large subunit rRNA gene, to represent two novel species of the genus Starmerella. These species are described here as Starmerella gilliamiae f.a, sp. nov. (CBS 16166T; Mycobank MB 851206) and Starmerella monicapupoae f.a., sp. nov. (PYCC 8997T; Mycobank MB 851207). The results of a phylogenomic analysis using 1037 single-copy orthogroups indicated that S. gilliamiae is a member of a subclade that contains Starmerella opuntiae, Starmerella aceti and Starmerella apicola. The results also indicated that S. monicapupoae is phylogenetically related to Starmerella riodocensis. The two isolates of S. monicapupoae were obtained from flowers in Brazil and were probably vectored by insects that visit these substrates. Starmerella gilliamiae has a wide geographi-cal distribution having been isolated in flowers from Brazil and Chile, fruit from Argentina and a bumblebee from Canada.
KW - bumblebee
KW - plants
KW - Starmerella gilliamiae sp. nov
KW - Starmerella monicapupoae sp. nov
KW - taxogenomic analyses
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85185967867&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1099/ijsem.0.006270
DO - 10.1099/ijsem.0.006270
M3 - Article
C2 - 38407127
AN - SCOPUS:85185967867
SN - 1466-5026
VL - 74
JO - International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
JF - International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
IS - 2
M1 - 006270
ER -