NEW SPECIES OF YEASTS FOUND IN JAPAN

Abstract

From the yeasts collected from various natural habitats in Japan from April 1962 to May 1965, six new species, Candida fibrae, Candida fragicola, Torulopsis auriculariae, Torulopsis fructus, Torulopsis musae, and Trichosporon brassicae, were found. DNA base composition of these new species was calculated from the thermal denaturation temperature of DNA and used for confirmation of identification.