TABLE 1.
Specificity of the PCR primers for fungal rDNA sequences in the GenBank database
| Taxon | Identical matches witha:
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|---|---|---|---|
| Primer nu-SSU-0817-5′ | Primer nu-SSU-1196-3′ | Primer nu-SSU-1536-3′ | |
| Fungi | 83 (1,089) | 85 (793) | 99.8 (848) |
| Rhodophyta | 12 (155) | ||
| Alveolata | 2 (32) | 10 (94) | |
| Viridiplantae | 2.4 (22) | ||
| Metazoa | 0.9 (12) | 1.7 (16) | 0.2 (2) |
| Choanoflagellida | 0.3 (4) | 0.4 (4) | |
| Glaucocystophyceae | 0.2 (2) | ||
| Cryptophyta | 1.7 (23) | 0.1 (1) | |
| Myxozoa | 0.5 (5) | ||
| Stramenopiles | 0.2 (3) | ||
| Total | 100 (1,320) | 100 (935) | 100 (850) |
a
These data are the percentages (numbers) of identical matches between the PCR primers described in this study and sequences in the GenBank (NCBI) nonredundant nucleotide database. These data were obtained by using BLAST (NCBI) during the period from December 1998 to April 1999.