Journal
FEMS YEAST RESEARCH
Volume 19, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/femsyr/foz038
Keywords
Schizosaccharomyces osmophilus; beebread; solitary bees; osmophily
Funding
- Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt DBU (German Federal Environmental Foundation) [34053/01-32]
- State Secretariat for Education of the Hungarian Ministry of Human Capacities
- European Union - European Social Fund [EFOP-3.6.3-VEKOP-16-2017-00005]
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Eight yeast strains that asexually reproduce by cell fission were isolated from bee bread of different solitary bees in Germany. DNA sequence analysis revealed that the strains shared the same sequence in the D1/D2 domain of the nuclear large subunit (LSU) rRNA gene with a strain that was previously isolated from a fig snack from Spain. The closest related type strain was that of Schizosaccharomyces octosporus, which showed 98.2% sequence similarity (11 substitutions) with the new strains. By clone sequence analysis of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region (ITS1, 5.8S rDNA, and ITS2) a total of nine different copy types were identified. The new strains differed from S. octosporus by approximately 31% in the ITS region. Sequence analysis of the RNAse P gene further supported the description of a new species. The strains isolated during this study show some phenotypic characteristics that separate them from the closest related species, S. octosporus and S. cryophilus. Since all strains showed true osmophily the name of the new species is S. osmophilus (holotype: CBS 15793(T); isotype: CLIB 3267 (T) = NCAIM Y.02225 (T), MycoBank no.: MB829586).
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