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Sympodiomyces attinorum sp. nov., a yeast species associated with nests of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens

¹ Laboratório de Microbiologia de Alimentos, Campus Universitário de Palmas, Fundação Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Palmas, Tocantins, 77020-210, Brazil
² Centro de Estudos de Insetos Sociais, CEIS, CP 199, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, São Paulo, 13506-900, Brazil
³ Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7
⁴ Departamento de Microbiologia, ICB, CP 486, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, 31270-901, Brazil

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Solange C. Carreiro
solange{at}uft.edu.br

Four strains of a novel yeast species were isolated from laboratory nests of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens in Brazil. Three strains were found in older sponges and one was in a waste deposit in the ant nests. Sequencing of the D1/D2 region of the large-subunit rRNA gene showed that the novel species, named Sympodiomyces attinorum sp. nov., is phylogenetically related to Sympodiomyces parvus. Unlike Sympodiomyces parvus, Sympodiomyces attinorum can ferment glucose, assimilate methyl -D-glucoside, salicin and citrate, and grow at 37 °C, thus enabling these two species to be distinguished. Differentiation from other related species is possible on the basis of other growth characteristics. The type strain of Sympodiomyces attinorum is UNESP-S156^T (=CBS 9734^T=NRRL Y-27639^T).

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