Phylogenetic and morphological analyses of Pythium graminicola and related species
Phylogenetic and morphological analyses of Pythium graminicola and related species
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DOI:
10.1007/s10327-005-0184-5
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发表时间:
2005-06
影响因子:
1.2
通讯作者:
K. Kageyama;Ayako Nakashima;Yuki Kajihara;H. Suga;E. Nelson
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作者:
K. Kageyama;Ayako Nakashima;Yuki Kajihara;H. Suga;E. Nelson
Isolates ofPythium graminicolaand related species were differentiated using restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analyses of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions of rDNA and the cytochrome c oxidase subunit II (COX II) gene. These sequences were used in subsequent phylogenetic analyses. Finally, the phylogenetic placement of species was compared to that determined from morphological characteristics. The 62 isolates tested were divided into seven groups, A–G, based on RFLP analysis of the rDNA-ITS region. In the RFLP analysis of the COX II gene, isolates were divided into groups similar to those based on ITS-RFLP. Groups A and B were each separated into two additional subgroups. Grouping of isolates based on RFLP analyses agreed with the morphological differentiation. Groups A, B, D, E, F, and G were identified asP. graminicola,P. arrhenomanes,P. aphanidermatum,P. myriotylum,P. torulosum, andP. vanterpoolii, respectively. Group C was closely related to group B based on phylogenetic analysis of the rDNA-ITS region and the COX II gene and is similar toP. arrhenomanes. Each of the other species occupied their own individual clades. AlthoughP. arrhenomanesis morphologically similar toP. graminicola, our phylogenetic analyses revealed that it was evolutionarily distant fromP. graminicolaand more closely related toP. vanterpoolii. Our analysis also revealed thatP. torulosumwith smaller oogonia is more closely related toP. myriotylumwith large oogonia than toP. vanterpoolii, which forms smaller oogonia and is morphologically similar toP. torulosum.P. aphanidermatumwith large oogonia and aplerotic oospores was not related to the morphologically similar speciesP. myriotylum. Results suggest thatP. graminicolaand related species are phylogenetically distinct, and molecular analyses, in addition to morphological analyses, are necessary for the accurate taxonomic placement of species in this complex.