Candida bombiphila sp. nov., a new asexual yeast species in the Wickerhamiella clade

1 Philipps-University Marburg, Department of Biology, Plant Ecology, Karl-von-Frisch-Straße, 35043 Marburg, Germany 2 Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7 Correspondence Michael Brysch-Herzberg Herzberg{at}students.uni-marburg.de Two yeast strains were isolated from a bumblebee and bumblebee honey. The strains were almost identical in their D1/D2 domain of the large-subunit rDNA and their physiological abilities. In both respects the strains resembled Wickerhamiella domercqiae . On the basis of these data, it is proposed that the strains represent a novel species with the name Candida bombiphila sp. nov. The type strain is CBS 9712 T (=NRRL Y-27640 T =MH268 T ). Published online ahead of print on 27 February 2004 as DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.63139-0. The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession numbers for the sequences reported in this paper are AJ620185 and AJ620186 .