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Phylogenetic relationships of Meliola and Meliolina inferred from nuclear small subunit rRNA sequences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1999

GREGORY S. SAENZ  and
JOHN W. TAYLOR
GREGORY S. SAENZ
Affiliation:
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, 111 Koshland Hall, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720-3102, U.S.A.
JOHN W. TAYLOR
Affiliation:
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, 111 Koshland Hall, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720-3102, U.S.A.
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Abstract

The phylogenetic relationships of two Meliola spp., one Meliolina sp., and 36 other ascomycetes were inferred from sequences of the nuclear small subunit ribosomal RNA gene. Phylogenetic analyses revealed that the Meliolaceae are members of the unitunicate Pyrenomycetes, and are not closely related to the bitunicate ascomycetes. The Meliolaceae have been hypothesised to be closely related to the Erysiphaceae, but the cladistic analyses showed that the two families are not closely related. The phylogenetic position of Meliolina is found amongst the bitunicate ascomycetes making it distantly related to the Meliolaceae.

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Research Article
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Mycological Research , Volume 103 , Issue 8 , August 1999 , pp. 1049 - 1056
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The British Mycological Society 1999

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