The nuclear genome of the anamorphic yeast Arxula adeninivorans was an
alysed by benomyl-induced haploidization of parasexual hybrids marked
with 32 auxotrophic mutations and pulsed field gel electrophoresis fol
lowed by DNA hybridization. Twenty-seven genes have been arranged into
four linkage groups by haploidization, 15 genes belong to group 1, si
x to group 2, and three each to groups 3 and 4. Five genes could be lo
calized by DNA hybridization on three out of four separated chromosome
s. The gene LYS2 of the largest linkage group 1 and the 25S rDNA were
identified on the largest chromosome, the GAA and the TEF1 gene on chr
omosome 2, and the ILV1 gene of linkage group 4 on the smallest chromo
some.