Wickerhamomyces queroliae sp. nov. and Candida jalapaonensis sp. nov., two yeast species isolated from Cerrado ecosystem in North Brazil

1 Departamento de Microbiologia, ICB, C.P. 486, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG 31270-901, Brazil 2 Laboratório de Microbiologia Ambiental e Biologia, Campus Universitário de Palmas, Fundação Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Palmas, Tocantins 77020-210, Brazil 3 Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada Correspondence Carlos A. Rosa carlrosa{at}icb.ufmg.br Two novel yeast species, Wickerhamomyces queroliae sp. nov. and Candida jalapaonensis sp. nov., were isolated, respectively, from larvae of Anastrepha mucronata (Diptera: Tephritidae) collected from ripe fruit of Peritassa campestris (‘Bacupari’, Hippocrateaceae) and from flowers of Centropogon cornutus (Campanulaceae) in the Cerrado ecosystem of the state of Tocantins, Brazil. Analysis of the D1/D2 large-subunit rRNA gene sequences placed W. queroliae in the Wickerhamomyces clade near Wickerhamomyces ciferri and Candida silvicultrix . Candida jalapaonensis belongs to the Wickerhamiella clade and is related to Candida drosophilae . The type strain of Wickerhamomyces queroliae is UFMG-05-T200.1 T (=CBS 10936 T =NRRL Y-48478 T ) and the type strain of Candida jalapaonensis is UFMG-03-T210 T (=CBS 10935 T =NRRL Y-48477 T ). The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession numbers for the sequences reported in this paper are EU580139 and EU580140 .