One Fungus, Which Genes? Development and Assessment of Universal Primers for Potential Secondary Fungal DNA Barcodes
Persoonia 35, 2015: 242–263 www.ingentaconnect.com/content/nhn/pimj RESEARCH ARTICLE http://dx.doi.org/10.3767/003158515X689135 One fungus, which genes? Development and assessment of universal primers for potential secondary fungal DNA barcodes J.B. Stielow1*, C.A. Lévesque2*, K.A. Seifert 2*, W. Meyer3*, L. Irinyi3, D. Smits1, R. Renfurm1, G.J.M. Verkley1, M. Groenewald1, D. Chaduli 4, A. Lomascolo 4,5, S. Welti6, L. Lesage-Meessen4, A. Favel4,5, A.M.S. Al-Hatmi1,7,24, U. Damm1,8, N. Yilmaz1,2, J. Houbraken1, L. Lombard1, W. Quaedvlieg1, M. Binder1, L.A.I. Vaas1,3,9, D. Vu1, A. Yurkov10, D. Begerow11, O. Roehl11, M. Guerreiro12, A. Fonseca12, K. Samerpitak1,13,24, A.D. van Diepeningen1, S. Dolatabadi1,24, L.F. Moreno1,24,25, S. Casaregola14, S. Mallet14, N. Jacques14, L. Roscini15, E. Egidi16,17, C. Bizet18,19, D. Garcia-Hermoso18,19, M.P. Martín 20, S. Deng 21, J.Z. Groenewald1, T. Boekhout 1,21, Z.W. de Beer 22, I. Barnes 23, T.A. Duong 23, M.J. Wingfield 22, G.S. de Hoog1,24,27, P.W. Crous1,22,26, C.T. Lewis 2, S. Hambleton2, T.A.A. Moussa27,28, H.S. Al-Zahrani 27, O.A. Almaghrabi27, G. Louis-Seize2, R. Assabgui 2, W. McCormick 2, G. Omer1, K. Dukik1, G. Cardinali15, U. Eberhardt 29,30, M. de Vries1, V. Robert1* Key words Abstract The aim of this study was to assess potential candidate gene regions and corresponding universal primer pairs as secondary DNA barcodes for the fungal kingdom, additional to ITS rDNA as primary barcode.
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