TABLE 3.

Species of fungi with 18S-rDNA sequences most similar to EF4-fung5 clones from a wheat rhizosphere^a

Clone no.	Fungal species with most similar sequence	Fragment size (bp)	Similarity	Result of Chimera Checkb	Accession no.
Ascomycota
Euascomycetes
UUF34	Symbiotaphrina buchneri	523	0.856	N	AF095665
UUF41	Symbiotaphrina buchneri	522	0.681	P	AF095669
UUF46	Symbiotaphrina buchneri	534	0.676	N	AF095673
Pyrenomycetes
UUF02	Neocosmospora vasinfecta	524	0.907	N	AF095648
UUF13	Neocosmospora vasinfecta	521	0.890	N	AF095654
UUF18	Neocosmospora vasinfecta	524	0.927	N	AF095656
UUF38	Neocosmospora vasinfecta	522	0.792	P	AF095666
UUF60	Neocosmospora vasinfecta	520	0.877	N	AF095681
UUF63	Neocosmospora vasinfecta	521	0.897	P	AF095683
UUF27	Paecilomyces tenuipes	515	0.900	N	AF095659
UUF42	Paecilomyces tenuipes	529	0.756	N	AF095670
UUF04	Verticillium dahliae	529	0.893	N	AF095649
UUF12	Verticillium dahliae	529	0.848	N	AF095653
UUF39	Verticillium dahliae	521	0.693	P	AF095667
UUF40	Verticillium dahliae	522	0.897	N	AF095668
UUF62	Sordaria fimicola	529	0.720	N	AF095682
UUF55	Chaetomium elatum	520	0.758	P	AF095678
Chaetithyriales
UUF05	Exophiala mansonii	524	0.838	N	AF095650
Loculoascomycetes
UUF22	Cladosporium cladosporioides	520	0.949	N	AF095657
UUF23	Cladosporium cladosporioides	522	0.937	N	AF095658
UUF33	Cladosporium cladosporioides	520	0.937	N	AF095664
UUF50	Cladosporium cladosporioides	528	0.821	N	AF095675
UUF66	Cladosporium cladosporioides	523	0.896	N	AF095685
UUF10	Pleospora rudis	525	0.937	N	AF095652
UUF29	Pleospora rudis	518	0.866	N	AF095661
UUF44	Alternaria alternata	517	0.984	N	AF095671
UUF47	Alternaria alternata	526	0.743	N	AF095674
UUF51	Alternaria alternata	521	0.911	N	AF095676
UUF45	Pleospora herbarum	528	0.868	N	AF095672
UUF59	Pleospora herbarum	521	0.772	N	AF095680
UUF68	Mycosphaerella mycopappi	519	0.899	N	AF095686
Erysiphales
UUF09	Blumeria graminis	535	0.859	P	AF095651
UUF28	Blumeria graminis	521	0.899	N	AF095660
Plectomycetes
UUF15	Geosmithia lavendula	525	0.803	P	AF095655
UUF56	Geosmithia lavendula	526	0.796	N	AF095679
UUF30	Eupenicillium javanicum	518	0.978	N	AF095662
UUF31	Eupenicillium javanicum	515	1.000	N	AF095663
Zygomycota
Zygomycetes
UUF64	Mortierella polycephala	529	0.762	N	AF095684
Chytridiomycota
Chytridiomycetes
UUF54	Spizellomyces acuminatus	522	0.691	N	AF095677

^aSequences were compared to those in the RDP database. No Basidiomycota clones were detected. 

^bP, possible chimeric sequence; N, not likely a chimeric sequence.