TABLE 2.

Percentages of similarity and numbers of mismatches of the closest relatives from the Ovoides clade with the type strain of T. dohaense in the ITS regions and the D1-D2 domains of the LSU of the rRNA gene in GenBank

Straina	GenBank accession no.	Species	ITS (405b)		LSU (517b)
			% Similarity	No. of mismatches	% Similarity	No. of mismatches
CBS 2482	AF444434	Trichosporon coremiiforme	97.8	9	99.8	1
CBS 2481	AF444416	Trichosporon asteroides	97.8	9	98.6	7
CBS 8641	AF444473	Trichosporon japonicum	97.5	10	98.8	6
CBS 4828	AB018016	Trichosporon faecale	97.5	10	98.8	6
CBS 2479	AB018013	Trichosporon asahii	97.5	10	98.8	6
CBS 5973	AF410475	Trichosporon aquatile	97.0	12	98.3	9
CBS 5585	AF44420	Trichosporon inkin	96.3	15	99.0	5
CBS 7556	AF444439	Trichosporon ovoides	96.3	15	98.8	6
CBS 9051	AJ319759	Trichosporon lactis	96.3	15	98.3	9
CBS 9052	AJ319758	Trichosporon caseorum	96.3	15	97.7	12

^aStrains are listed in descending order with regard to the percentage of similarity, based first on the ITS and second on the LSU values.

^bQuery length (base pairs).