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A new yeast species of basidiomycetous affinity Kurtzmanomyces tardus was isolated from contaminated demineralized water. It differs from K. nectairii, the only other Kurtzmanomyces species so far described, in its carbon assimilation pattern and low DNA-DNA homology (2.3%±2.1).
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Giménez-Jurado, G., Plácido, T., Cidadão, A.J. et al. Kurtzmanomyces tardus sp. nov., a new anamorphic yeast species of basidiomycetous affinity. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 58, 129–135 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00422729
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