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Stiller & Hall (1997) were the first to design primers from this molecule to resolve phylogenetic relationships. Their study focused on red algae. Matheny et al. developed one additional primer for a study of fungi in 2002.
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As part of the AFToL (Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life) project, members of our lab have developed new primers for amplifying and sequencing RPB1 in Ascomycota [asc], Lecanoromycetidae [lecan], and Peltigerales [pelt] (Hofstetter et al. 2007):
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Several RPB1 primers were also developed in our lab as part of a study on the systematics of the family Verrucariaceae (Gueidan et al. 2007):
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Medeiros et al. (2021) developed new RPB1 primers for Lecanoraceae. These primers were designed to be used in the second round of a nested PCR, after RPB1-Af and either RPB1-Cr or RPB1-Dr were used in the first amplification.
lecRPB1-F 5′- GAR ACN GTY TGY CAY AAY TGY GGC AAG -3′
lecRPB1-R 5′- C RAA YTC RTT NAC NAC RTG NGC NGG -3′
References and relevant publications:
Matheny, P.B., Liu, Y.J., Ammirati, J.F., and Hall, B.D. 2002. Using RPB1 sequences to improve phylogenetic inference among mushrooms (Inocybe, Agaricales). Am. J. Bot. 89: 688–698.
Medeiros, I.D., Mazur, E., Miadlikowska, J., Flakus, A., Rodriguez-Flakus, P., Pardo-De la Hoz, C.J., Cieślak, E., Śliwa, L., and Lutzoni, F. 2021. Turnover of lecanoroid mycobionts and their Trebouxia photobionts along an elevation gradient in Bolivia highlights the role of environment in structuring the lichen symbiosis. Frontiers in Microbiology 12: 774839.
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Stiller, J.W. and Hall, B.D. 1997. The origin of red algae: Implications for plastid evolution. PNAS 94: 4520–4525.
Hofstetter, V., Miadlikowska, J., Kauff, F., and Lutzoni, F. 2007. Phylogenetic comparison of protein-coding versus ribosomal RNA-coding sequence data: A case study of the Lecanoromycetes (Ascomycota). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44: 412–426.
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Gueidan, C., Roux, C., and Lutzoni, F. 2007. Using a multigene phylogenetic analysis to assess generic delineation and character evolution in Verrucariaceae (Eurotiomycetes, Ascomycota). Mycological Research 111:1145-1168.
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James, T. Y., F. Kauff, C. Schoch, P. B. Matheny, V. Hofstetter, C. Cox, G. Celio, C. Gueidan, E. Fraker, J. Miadlikowska, H. T. Lumbsch, A. Rauhut, V. Reeb, A. E. Arnold, A. Amtoft, J. E. Stajich, K. Hosaka, G.-H. Sung, D. Johnson, B. O’Rourke, M. Crockett, M. Binder, J. M. Curtis, J. C. Slot, Z. Wang, A. W. Wilson, A. Schüßler, J. E. Longcore, K. O’Donnell, S. Mozley-Standridge, D. Porter, P. M. Letcher, M. J. Powell, J. W. Taylor, M. M. White, G. W. Griffith, D. R. Davies, R. A. Humber, J. B. Morton, J. Sugiyama, A. Y. Rossman, J. D. Rogers, D. H. Pfister, D. Hewitt, K. Hansen, S. Hambleton, R. A. Shoemaker, J. Kohlmeyer, B. Volkmann-Kohlmeyer, R. A. Spotts, M. Serdani, P. W. Crous, K. W. Hughes, K. Matsuura, E. Langer, G. Langer, W. A. Untereiner, R. Lücking, B. Büdel, D. M. Geiser, A. Aptroot, P. Diederich, I. Schmitt, M. Schultz, R. Yahr, D. Hibbett, F. Lutzoni, D. McLaughlin, J. Spatafora, and R. Vilgalys. 2006. Reconstructing the early evolution of the fungi using a six gene phylogeny. Nature 443:818-822.
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Miadlikowska, J., Kauff, F., Hofstetter, V., Fraker, E., Grube, M., Hafellner, J., Reeb, V., Hodkinson, B. P., Kukwa, M., Lücking, R., Hestmark, G., Garcia Otalora, M., Rauhut, A., Büdel, B., Scheidegger, C., Timdal, E., Stenroos, S., Brodo, I., Perlmutter, G., Ertz, D., Diederich, P., Lendemer, J. C., May, P., Schoch, C. L., Arnold, A. E., Gueidan, C., Tripp, E., Yahr, R., Robertson, C., Lutzoni, F. 2006. New insights into classification and evolution of the Lecanoromycetes (Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota) from phylogenetic analyses of three ribosomal RNA- and two protein-coding genes. Mycologia 98:1088-1103.
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O’Brien, H. E., Miadlikowska, J. and Lutzoni, F. 2009. Assessing reproductive isolation in highly diverse communities of the lichen-forming fungal genus Peltigera. Evolution 63:2076–2086.
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