Species separation in Curvularia “geniculata” group inferred from Brn1 gene sequences
Species separation in Curvularia “geniculata” group inferred from Brn1 gene sequences
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DOI:
10.1007/s10267-003-0104-5
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发表时间:
2003-06
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1.4
通讯作者:
Guangyu Sun;Shinichi Oide;E. Tanaka;K. Shimizu;C. Tanaka;M. Tsuda
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作者:
Guangyu Sun;Shinichi Oide;E. Tanaka;K. Shimizu;C. Tanaka;M. Tsuda
Brn1, a reductase gene involved in the melanin biosynthetic pathway, was adopted for species delimitation among members in the “geniculata” group ofCurvulariaspecies and proved to be useful for this purpose. Phylogenetic trees of these fungal members were constructed from nucleotide sequences of this region. The so-called geniculata group ofCurvulariawas separated into several clusters. The conidial morphology of the members in each cluster is closely similar but clearly different among discrete clusters. The phylogenetic groups almost concurred with the morphological grouping. Thus, the synonymous treatment ofCurvularia affinis,C. fallax, andC. senegalensistoC. geniculatain a previous study was supported. The isolates with warping hilum conidia were clearly different fromC. geniculataand separated into two clusters.C. geniculataATCC 6671 made an independent cluster situated near these clusters. The protuberant hilum species were located separately in the phylogenetic trees. For sound taxonomic treatment of these isolates, we should accumulate more information and retain our species determination for them.