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Scheffersomyces gosingicus CBS11433T. Image by Katharina de Oliveira Barros.
Scheffersomyces gosingicus CBS11433T. Image by Katharina de Oliveira Barros.

Scheffersomyces gosingicus was assigned as Candida after being isolated during an investigation of the yeast community associated with soil in Taiwan (1). Phylogenetic analyses based on a multilocus dataset placed this species, previously known by Candida gosingicus, in the earliest derived subclade of Scheffersomyces spartinae (2). Unlike its closely related species, S. gosingicus is a cellobiose-fermenting yeast, but it shares with S. spartinae the inability to ferment D-xylose (2,3). A previous study suggested that the genus Scheffersomyces should be circumscribed to the monophyletic group of xylose-fermenting yeasts (3). Whole genome sequencing of this species can provide information about its phylogenetic placement and traits of interest for biotechnological purposes.

References:

(1) Chang, C. F., Yao, C. H., Young, S. S., Limtong, S., Kaewwichian, R., Srisuk, N., & Lee, C. F. (2011). Candida gosingica sp. nov., an anamorphic ascomycetous yeast closely related to Scheffersomyces spartinae. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 61(3), 690-694.

(2) Urbina H & Blackwell M. (2012). Multilocus Phylogenetic Study of the Scheffersomyces Yeast Clade and Characterization of the N-Terminal Region of Xylose Reductase Gene. PLOS One. 7(6):e39128.

(3) Suh, S. O., Houseknecht, J. L., Gujjari, P., & Zhou, J. J. (2013). Scheffersomyces parashehatae fa, sp. nov., Scheffersomyces xylosifermentans fa, sp. nov., Candida broadrunensis sp. nov. and Candida manassasensis sp. nov., novel yeasts associated with wood-ingesting insects, and their ecological and biofuel implications. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol, 63(Pt_11), 4330-4339.