Genomic analysis and D-xylose fermentation of three novelSpathasporaspecies:Spathaspora girioisp. nov.,Spathaspora hagerdaliaef. a., sp. nov. andSpathaspora gorwiaef. a., sp. nov.

Three novel D-xylose-fermenting yeast species of Spathaspora clade were recovered from rotting wood in regions of the Atlantic Rainforest ecosystem in Brazil. Differentiation of new species was based on analyses of the gene encoding the D1/D2 sequences of large subunit of rRNA and on 642 conserved, single-copy, orthologous genes from genome sequence assemblies from the newly described species and 15 closely-related...