Taxonomic identification of strain ATY839
For the phylogenetic analysis of strain ATY839, 26S
rDNA sequencing was performed and the assimilation
potential of various sugars was tested (Table 1). Thesequence of 26S rDNA of strain ATY839 showed 99.5%
identity to that of Candida shehatae CBS 4704. The
sequence has been recorded in the DDBJ database
under the accession number AF178049. The sugar assimilation
test of strain ATY839 gave results similar to
those for C. shehatae CBS 5813 (Kurtzman et al. 2010).
For these reasons, we regard strain ATY839 as belonging to C. shehatae and it is one of the most tolerant strains
to high temperature within C. shehatae.