TABLE 2.

Number of nucleotide differences in ITS1, 5.8S, and ITS2 regions within a single species

Species and isolatea	No. of bp differences compared to reference strain			% Similarityb
	ITS1	5.8S	ITS2
Rhizopus oryzae
CBS 112.07T
IP 4.77	0	0	0	100
IP 1443.83	1	0	0	99.8
CNRMA 03.253	3	0	3	98.9
CNRMA 03.375	1	0	0	99.8
CNRMA 03.395	1	0	0	99.8
CNRMA 03.410	0	0	0	100
CNRMA 03.411	0	0	0	100
CNRMA 03.412	0	0	0	100
CNRMA 03.413	0	0	0	100
CNRMA 03.909	1	0	0	99.8
CNRMA 03.918	1	0	0	99.8
CNRMA 04.48	0	0	0	100
CNRMA 04.160	3	0	3	98.9
CNRMA 04.785	1	0	0	99.8
CNRMA 04.1253	1	0	0	99.8
CNRMA 04.1468	0	0	0	100
Rhizopus microsporus
CBS 631.82T
CBS 339.62	0	0	0	100
IP 676.72	0	0	0	100
IP 1123.75	0	0	0	100
IP 1124.75	2	0	6	98.9
CNRMA 04.1469	0	0	0	100
Absidia corymbifera
IP 1129.75
IP 1279.81	0	0	0	100
IP 1280.81	4	0	0	99.5
CNRMA 03.611	0	0	0	100
CNRMA 03.697	0	0	0	100
CNRMA 04.732	0	0	0	100
Mucor circinelloides
CBS 195.68NT
IP 1873.89	6	0	2	98.7
CNRMA 03.154	2	0	1	99.5
CNRMA 03.371	1	0	0	99.8
CNRMA 04.805	5	1	2	98.7
Rhizomucor pusillus
CBS 354.68NT
ATCC 36606	0	0	0	100
IP 1127.75	0	0	0	100
IP 1959.90	0	0	0	100
CNRMA 03.1205	0	0	0	100
CNRMA 04.210	0	0	0	100
CNRMA 04.503	0	0	0	100

^aATCC, American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, Va.; CBS, Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, Utrecht, The Netherlands; CNRMA, National Reference Center for Mycoses and Antifungals, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; IP, Pasteur Institute Collection of Fungi, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. Superscript letters: T, type strain; NT, neotype strain. CBS 631.82 is the type strain of R. microsporus var. chinensis, and CBS 195.68 is the type strain of M. circinelloides f. circinelloides.

^bPercent similarity value reflects similarity across all three rRNA gene regions (ITS1, 5.8S, and ITS2).