PYCC 9952
1 - Taxon name
Meira qingyuanensis
2 - Classification
Basidiomycota
3 - Strain (species name) changes
NA
4 - Status of the strain
Type strain of Meira qingyuanensis
5 - Basis for identification
Molecular (D1D2)
6 - Identified by
Y.-Z. Qiao, Dec.2022
7 - Original strain number
NYNU 224191
8 - Accession numbers in other collections
GDMCC 2.314
9 - Biological Safety Level
BSL-1
10 - Access and Benefit Sharing (CBD, Nagoya protocol)
No known ABS restrictions
11 - PYCC strain status
Open
12 - Mediterranean strain
No
13 - Substrate of isolation
Leaf
14 - Category of substrate
Vascular plants, mosses & algae
15 - Locality
Quanzhou, Fujian
16 - Country of origin
China
17 - Latitude, longitude coordinates

25, 118

18 - Sample Collected by
W.-T. Hu
19 - Isolated by and date of isolation
W.-T. Hu, Mar.2022
20 - Isolation details
YMA with chloramphenicol, 20ºC
21 - Deposited by
Feng-Li, Dec. 2023
22 - History
Fen-Li > PYCC
23 - Preservation
Glass beads; 20% Glycerol; -150C
24 - Price per culture
85€
25 - Remarks
NA
26 - Medium for growth
MYP
DNA Sequence
Region
26S
Sequence Title
OP278689
Gene Bank Url
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/OP278689
DNA Sequence
Region
ITS
Sequence Title
OP278688
Gene Bank Url
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/OP278688
Title
Meira qingyuanensis sp. nov., an anamorphic yeast species isolated from plant leaves

Author

Dan-Yang Cai, Shan Liu, Feng-Li Hui

Abstract

Two yeast strains, NYNU 224191 and NYNU 22411, were isolated from plant leaves of Cyclobalanopsis jenseniana and Schisandra sp. harvested from Qingyuan Mountain, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, southeast China. Molecular phylogenetic analyses demonstrated that these two strains represent a novel species in the genus Meira. They are more closely related to M. marina, M. nashicola, M. plantarum and M. pileae than other Meira species based on phylogenetic analysis of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region and the D1/D2 domain of the large subunit (LSU) rRNA gene. The novel species differed from its closest relatives, M. marina, M. nashicola, M. plantarum and M. pileae, by 1.8–2% sequence divergence (11–12 substitutions and 1–2 gaps) in the D1/D2 domain and over 6.7% sequence divergence (40–60 substitutions and 53–77 gaps) in the ITS region, respectively. We propose the name Meira qingyuanensis sp. nov. (Holotype CICC 33567; Mycobank MB 855328) for the new species, which differs phenotypically from M. marina, M. plantarum and M. pileae in its ability to assimilate methyl-α-d-glucoside and the inability to assimilate salicin, and from M. nashicola in its ability to assimilate nitrate and nitrite and grow at 30 °C.

Publication Date

Link to Publication

https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.006604
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