TABLE 2.
Results of DNA fragment analyses with T. rubrum strains
| Assay method and primer set | DNA fragment profile for strain origina
|
No. of loci | No. of genotypes | Genetic diversity | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R (n = 48) | J (n = 26) | U (n = 21) | CS (n = 5) | A (n = 1) | ||||
| RAMD | ||||||||
| B7/10 | A | A | A | A | A | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| B7/18 | B | B | B | B | B | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| B8/11 | C | C | C | C | C | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| B4/14 | D | D (2) | D (4) | D | D | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| B6/20 | E | E (2) | E | E | E | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| B3/20a | F | F (1) | F (2) | F | F | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| B3/20b | G | G | G | G | G | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| B3/11 | H | H (1) | H (4) | H | H | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| AFLP | ||||||||
| TAA-TAA | K (7) | K | −(U) | − | K | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| TGC-TGC | L (4) | L | L (1) | L | L | 15 | 1 | 0 |
| TGC-CTG | M (3) | M (1) | M | M | M | 12 | 1 | 0 |
| PCR | ||||||||
| AC10 | S | S | S | S | S | 14 | 1 | 0 |
| Overall | 57 | 1 | 0 | |||||
a
Strain origins: R, Germany; J, Japan; U, United States; CS, reference strains; A, Africa. Values in parentheses are numbers of strains not assayed. −(U), TAA-CTG was used instead of TAA-TAA.