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The phylogenetic position of an Armillaria species from Amami-Oshima, a subtropical island of Japan, based on elongation factor and ITS sequences

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Abstract

An undetermined Armillaria species was collected on Amami-Oshima, a subtropical island of Japan. The phylogenetic position of the Armillaria sp. was determined using sequences of the elongation factor-1α (EF-1α) gene and the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region (ITS1-5.8S-ITS2) of ribosomal DNA (rDNA). The phylogenetic analyses based on EF-1α and ITS sequences showed that this species differs from known Japanese taxa of Armillaria. The sequences of this species and A. novae-zelandiae from Southeast Asia were contained in a strongly supported clade, which was adjacent to a well-supported sister clade containing A. novae-zelandiae from Australia and New Zealand.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the curator of the Kew Herbarium for lending type specimens of A. fuscipes and A. novae-zelandiae. We are grateful to Dr. Eiji Nagasawa (Tottori Mycological Institute, Tottori, Japan) who provided the isolates. Thanks are also due to Dr. Norio Sahashi, Dr. Tsutomu Hattori, Dr. Taisei Kikuchi, Dr. Amy Ross-Davis, and Mr. John W. Hanna for their helpful suggestions on an earlier version of this manuscript and to Ms. EtsukoTsutsumi and Ms. Kazuko Komaru for their technical assistance. This work was supported by the Program for Supporting Activities for Female Researchers funded by the Special Coordination Fund for Promoting Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan.

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  1. Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Matsunosato 1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8687, Japan

    Yuko Ota & Hitoshi Neda

  2. Department of Forestry, Environment, and Systems, Kookmin University, Seoul, 136-702, Republic of Korea

    Mee-Sook Kim

  3. USDA Forest Service, RMRS, 1221 South Main Street, Moscow, ID, 83843, USA

    Ned B. Klopfenstein

  4. Kansai Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, 68 Nagai-Kyutaro, Momoyama, Fushimi, Kyoto, 612-0855, Japan

    Eri Hasegawa

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An erratum to this article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10267-011-0175-7

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Ota, Y., Kim, MS., Neda, H. et al. The phylogenetic position of an Armillaria species from Amami-Oshima, a subtropical island of Japan, based on elongation factor and ITS sequences. Mycoscience 52, 53–58 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10267-010-0066-3

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