Saitoella
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Saitoella

Goto, Sugiy., Hamam. & Komag. (1987)
Type species
Saitoella complicata
Goto, Sugiy., Hamam. & Komag. (1987)
Species

Saitoella complicata
Saitoella coloradoensis

Saitoella is a genus of two species of yeast in the family Protomycetaceae.

The genus was circumscribed by Shoji Goto, Junta Sugiyama, Makiko Hamamoto and Kazuo Komagata in J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol., Tokyo vol.33 (1)on page 76 in 1987.

The genus name of Ripartitella is in honour of Kendo Saito (1878–1960), who was a Japanese botanist (Mycology and Lichenology), Microbiologist and Professor from the Osaka University.[1]

The type species, Saitoella complicata, originally isolated from Himalayan soil,[2] had its genome sequenced.[3] The genus is named after professor Kendo Saito for his contributions to the taxonomy of the genus Rhodotorula.[2] A second species, Saitoella coloradoensis, isolated from insect frass found on Engelmann spruce in Colorado, was described as new in 2012.[4]

References

  1. Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  2. 1 2 Goto S; Sugiyama J; Hamamoto M; Komagata K. "Saitoella, a new anamorph genus in the Cryptococcaceae to accommodate two Himalayan yeast isolates formerly identified as Rhodotorula glutinis". The Journal of General and Applied Microbiology. 33 (1): 75–85. doi:10.2323/jgam.33.75.
  3. Nishida H; Hamamoto M; Sugiyama J. (2011). "Draft genome sequencing of the enigmatic yeast Saitoella complicata". The Journal of General and Applied Microbiology. 57 (4): 243–6. doi:10.2323/jgam.57.243. PMID 21914972.
  4. Kurtzman CP; Robnett CJ. (2012). "Saitoella coloradoensis sp. nov., a new species of the Ascomycota, subphylum Taphrinomycotina" (PDF). Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 101 (4): 795–802. doi:10.1007/s10482-011-9694-7. PMID 22246589.


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