Table 1.

Alternate non-rDNA loci used for molecular identification

Locus	Genera/order	References
β-Tubulin	Aspergillus, Penicillium, Phoma, Pseudallescheria, Chaetomium, Phaeoacremonium, Sporothrix, Paecilomyces	Glass and Donaldson 1995
Preribosomal-processing protein	Aspergillus, Penicillium	Houbraken and Samson 2011
Minichromosome maintenance protein	Aspergillus	Sugui et al. 2012
Translation elongation factor 1α	Fusarium, Mucorales, Beauveria, Cordyceps, Trichoderma, Alternaria, Cladosporium, Phomopsis	O’Donnell et al. 1998, 2001; Abe et al. 2010
Cytochrome oxidase 1	Penicillium	Lasker 2006
Calmodulin	Pseudallescheria, Sporothrix, Aspergillus	O’Donnell et al. 2000; Hong et al. 2006; Marimon et al. 2006
Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase	Cochliobolus, Curvularia, Bipolaris	Berbee et al. 1999
Endopolygalacturonase	Alternaria	Andrew et al. 2009
RNA polymerase II	Schizophyllum, Alternaria, Penicillium, Aspergillus	Liu et al. 1999; Peterson 2008; Samson et al. 2011; Yilmaz et al. 2012
Actin	Rhizopus, Stachybotrys, Trichophyton, Phaeoacremonium	Carbone and Kohn 1999; Gao and Takashima 2004
Intergenic sequence	Trichosporon	Sugita et al. 2002