TABLE 1.

Sequence comparison of isolates^a

Reference species and EMBL accession no.	No. of isolates	Sequence position relative to the 5′ end of the ITS5 primer
		106	128	145	147	150	179	180	181	199	202	211	212	213
P. roquefortiX82358		A	A	T	T	A	–	C	C	A	C	A	A	C
	48	•	•	•	•	•	–	Nb	•	•	•	•	•	•
	2	G	•	C	C	G	C	•	•	T	T	T	G	A
P. paneumX82360		A	C	C	C	G	–	C	C	A	A	T	G	A
	2	•	•	•	•	•	–	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
P. carneumX82359		A	A	T	C	A	–	T	C	A	C	A	A	C
	0	•	•	•	•	•	–	•	•	•	•	•	•	•

^aSequence comparison of relevant positions from the ITS1 region of previously published reference isolates (2) and 52 strains isolated from feed and tentatively identified as P. roqueforti by microscopy. Dashes (–) indicate deletions and bullets (•) indicate identical nucleotides. 

^bIn two cases, position 180 was T and in one case A, while the remaining 45 positions had a C residue.