Taxonomic reclassification of Candida stellata DBVPG 3827

Folia Microbiol (Praha). 2005;50(6):494-8. doi: 10.1007/BF02931436.

Abstract

We present data demonstrating that the strain DBVPG 3827 does not belong to C. stellata. From the results of physiological analysis, electrophoretic karyotyping, the PCR-RFLP of the ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 region and the nucleotide sequence of the D1/D2 domain of the 26S rDNA it can be concluded that DBVPG 3827 is a strain of Starmerella bombicola. This finding, and the recent observation that C. stellata can easily be confused with C. zemplinina in tests of conventional taxonomy, urges a critical revision of the enological role(s) attributed by researchers to C. stellata.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Ascomycota / classification*
  • Ascomycota / genetics
  • Ascomycota / growth & development
  • Ascomycota / physiology
  • Candida / classification*
  • Candida / genetics
  • Candida / growth & development
  • Candida / physiology
  • DNA, Fungal / analysis
  • DNA, Ribosomal Spacer / analysis
  • Karyotyping
  • Mycological Typing Techniques
  • Phylogeny
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
  • RNA, Ribosomal / genetics
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 5.8S
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA

Substances

  • DNA, Fungal
  • DNA, Ribosomal Spacer
  • RNA, Ribosomal
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 5.8S
  • RNA, ribosomal, 26S