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The rpb2 gene represents a viable alternative molecular marker for the analysis of environmental fungal communities.
Molecular ecology resources - 1 Mar 2016
Větrovský Tomáš, Kolařík Miroslav, Žifčáková Lucia, Zelenka Tomáš, Baldrian Petr
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Although the commonly used internal transcribed spacer region of rDNA (ITS) is well suited for taxonomic identification of fungi, the information on the relative abundance of taxa and diversity is negatively affected by the multicopy nature of rDNA and the existence of ITS paralogues. Moreover, due to high variability, ITS sequences cannot be used for phylogenetic analyses of unrelated taxa. The part of...
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