Intraspecific and within-isolate sequence variation in the ITS rRNA gene region of Pythium mercuriale sp. nov. (Pythiaceae)

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 284, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-27

  Belbahri, Lassaad ^a   McLeod, Adèle ^b   Paul, Bernard ^c   Calmin, Gautier ^a   Moralejo, Eduardo ^d   Spies, Chris F J ^b   Botha, Wilhelm J ^e   Clemente, Antonio ^d   Descals, Enrique ^d   Sánchez Hernández, Esperanza ^f   Lefort, Francois ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^d INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^e PLANT PROTECTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

ITS heterogeneity; Molecular phylogeny; Oomycetes; Plant pathogens; Pythium mercuriale

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; ELONGATION FACTOR 1ALPHA; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME RNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROZYGOSITY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYTHIUM; PYTHIUM MERCURIALE;

ALGAL PROTEINS; ALLELES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, ALGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GENES, RRNA; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PYTHIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TUBULIN;

OOMYCETES; PHYTOPHTHORA; PYTHIACEAE; PYTHIUM;

EID: 44649110729     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01168.x     Document Type: Article

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