TABLE 3.
Organisms demonstrating potential sequence redundancy in the ITS2 targeta
| Organism | Synonym | No. of nucleotides aligned | Other key BLASTN EMBL match(es) | Synonym(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candida fabianii | Pichia fabianii (Te) | 37 | Pichia amylophila, Pichia mississippiensis | |
| Candida famata | Debaromyces hansenii (Te), Debaromyces fabryi | 37 | Debaromyces nepalensis, Debaromyces coudertii, Debaromyces maramus, Candida psychrophila | |
| Candida guilliermondii | Pichia guilliermondii (Te) | 36 | Candida carpophila | Candida fukuyamaensis, Candida xestobii |
| Candida fermentati | Pichia caribbica (Te) | |||
| Candida krusei | Issatchenkia orientalis (Te) | 37 | Candida xylopsoci, Issatchenkia terricola, Pichia cecembensis, Pichia sporocuriosa | |
| Candida pseudointermedia | 38 | Candida intermedia | ||
| Cryptococcus neoformans | Filobasidiella neoformans (Te) | 35 | Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans, Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii, | |
| Cryptococcus gattii | Cryptococcus bacillisporus | |||
| Cryptococcus terreus | Cryptococcus elinovii | 35 | Cryptococcus albidus, Cryptococcus phenolicus | |
| Kazachstania spp. | 35 | Kazachstania aquatica, Kazachstania bovina, Kazachstania telluris, Kazachstania unispora | ||
| Pseudozyma spp. | 38 | Pseudozyma aphidis, Pseudozyma antarctica, Pseudozyma rugulosa | ||
| Saccharomyces cerevisiae | Saccharomyces boulardii | 37 | Saccharomyces paradoxus | |
| Saccharomyces bayanus | Saccharomyces uvarum | |||
| Saccharomyces mikatae | Saccharomyces mikatii |
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The yeast species subjected to pyrosequencing in the current study (organism column) are given, together with known synonyms (teleomorphs [TE]) and the list of key species (identified in BLASTN searches of the EMBL database) that show 100% nucleotide similarity over the target organism ITS2 signature sequence.