Intragenomic variation in the ITS rDNA region obscures phylogenetic relationships and inflates estimates of operational taxonomic units in genus Laetiporus

Mycologia

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 731-740

  Lindner, Daniel L ^a   Banik, Mark T ^a  

^a Center for Forest Mycology Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Fungi; Internal transcribed spacer region; Intragenomic variation; Molecular drive; Sulfur shelf

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; DETECTION METHOD; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMICS; PATHOGEN; PHYLOGENY; RELATEDNESS; TAXONOMY;

APHYLLOPHORALES; BASIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI; LAETIPORUS; OTUS; WOLFIPORIA; WOLFIPORIA DILATOHYPHA;

FUNGAL DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYPORALES;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHYLOGENY; POLYPORALES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 80051698839     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/10-331     Document Type: Article

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