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The rDNA Internal Transcribed Spacer Region as a Taxonomic Marker for Nematodes.

ABSTRACT: The ITS region from a wide taxonomic range of nematodes, including secernentean and adenophorean taxa, and free-living, entomopathogenic, and plant-parasitic species, was evaluated as a taxonomic marker. Size of the amplified product aided in the initial determination of group membership, and also suggested groups that may require taxonomic reevaluation. Congeneric species often displayed identically sized ITS regions, but genera such as Pratylenchus and Tylenchorhynchus had species with large differences in size. ITS heterogeneity in individuals and populations was identified in several nematode taxa. PCR-RFLP of ITS1 is advocated as a method of taxonomic analysis in genera such as Helicotylenchus that contain numerous species with few diagnostic morphological characteristics.

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PROVIDER: S-EPMC2619808 | biostudies-other | 1997 Dec

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The rDNA Internal Transcribed Spacer Region as a Taxonomic Marker for Nematodes.

Powers T O TO Todd T C TC Burnell A M AM Murray P C PC Fleming C C CC Szalanski A L AL Adams B A BA Harris T S TS

Journal of nematology 19971201 4

The ITS region from a wide taxonomic range of nematodes, including secernentean and adenophorean taxa, and free-living, entomopathogenic, and plant-parasitic species, was evaluated as a taxonomic marker. Size of the amplified product aided in the initial determination of group membership, and also suggested groups that may require taxonomic reevaluation. Congeneric species often displayed identically sized ITS regions, but genera such as Pratylenchus and Tylenchorhynchus had species with large d ...[more]

PMID: 19274180

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