Nakazawaea
Nakazawaea is a genus of yeast in the order Alaninales. The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the order is not fully unknown.
In 2022, DNA analysis of Saccharomycotina yeasts noted that Peterozyma toletana, Peterozyma tannophilus and Nakazawaea holstii are in a monophyletic sister clade to the Pichiaceae family.
Originally, a monotypic genus containing the single species Nakazawaea holstii but Nakazawaea siamensis was added in 2011. With further others added later.
The genus name of Nakazawaea is in honour of Dr. Ryoji Nakazawa, who was a Japanese microbiologist and Director of the Institute for Fermentation, Osaka, Japan, in recognition of his contributions to yeast taxonomy.
The genus was circumscribed by Yuzo Yamada, Kojiro Maeda and Kozaburo Mikata in Biosc., Biotechn. Biochem. vol.58 on page 1256 in 1994.
Species
As accepted by GBIF;- Nakazawaea ambrosiae
- Nakazawaea anatomiae
- Nakazawaea ernobii
- Nakazawaea holstii
- Nakazawaea ishiwadae
- Nakazawaea laoshanensis
- Nakazawaea molendini-olei
- Nakazawaea peltata
- Nakazawaea pomicola
- Nakazawaea populi
- Nakazawaea siamensis
- Nakazawaea todaengensis
- Nakazawaea wickerhamii
- ''Nakazawaea wyomingensis''