Blastobotrys bombycis sp. nov., a d-xylose-fermenting yeast isolated from the gut of the silkworm larva Bombyx mori
Barretto, Delicia Avilla and Avchar, Rameshwar and Carvalho, Cláudia and Sampaio, José Paulo and Vootla, Shyam Kumar and Baghela, Abhishek,, 68, 2638-2643 (2018),
doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002890,
publicationName = Microbiology Society,
issn = 1466-5026,
abstract= The gut of insects harbors a yeast community that is still poorly understood. Here, a novel species of the ascomycetous genus Blastobotrys is proposed based on a yeast strain isolated from the larval gut of the silkworm Bombyx mori (Order Lepidoptera). The novel species is closely related to Blastobotrys aristata and Blastobotrys elegans on the basis of the results of molecular phylogenetic analyses. A preliminary screening revealed that it produces 1.5 g l−1 ethanol by fermenting 5 % d-xylose. The novel species, that represents the first report, to our knowledge, of yeast isolation from silkworms, is described as Blastobotrys bombycis sp. nov. (type strain RAAB001T=CBS 15274T=PYCC 8105T=MCC 1427T; MycoBank accession number MB 825095).,
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