| catching speciation in the act: metschnikowia bowlesiae sp. nov., a yeast species found in nitidulid beetles of hawaii and belize. | we describe the species metschnikowia bowlesiae sp. nov. based on the recovery of six isolates from hawaii and belize. the species belongs to the metschnikowia arizonensis subclade of the large-spored metschnikowia clade. the isolates are haploid and heterothallic. both hawaiian strains had the mating type h(+) and the belizean strains were h(-). paraphyletic species structures observed in some ribosomal dna sequence analyses suggest that m. bowlesiae sp. nov. might represent an intermediate sta ... | 2014 | 24370980 |