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Accelerated nrDNA evolution and profound AT bias in the medicinal fungus Cordyceps sinensis.
Mycological research - 1 Apr 2007
Stensrud Øyvind, Schumacher Trond, Shalchian-Tabrizi Kamran, Svegården Ingeborg Bjorvand, Kauserud Håvard
Abstract excerpt
Cordyceps sinensis is a reputed medicinal fungus growing parasitically on buried larvae of ghost moths in Asian high-altitude grassland ecosystems. We have analysed the intraspecific ITS nrDNA (ITS1, 5.8S gene, ITS2) variation among 71 sequences of C. sinensis available in EMBL/Genbank. The ITS sequences, submitted to Bayesian ML analyses, were distributed into five groups, referred to as A-E. Nine of the...
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