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Citation for Study 290

About Citation title: "Evolutionary relationships of Lentinus to the Polyporaceae: evidence from restriction analysis of enzymatically amplified ribosomal DNA.".
About This study was previously identified under the legacy study ID S3x30x98c19c50c08 (Status: Published).

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Hibbett D., & Vilgalys R. 1991. Evolutionary relationships of Lentinus to the Polyporaceae: evidence from restriction analysis of enzymatically amplified ribosomal DNA. Mycologia, 83: 425-439.

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  • Hibbett D.
  • Vilgalys R.

Abstract

Evolutionary relationships of Lentinus to the Tricholomataceae and Polyporaceae were studied using restriction analysis of nuclear-encoded ribosomal RNA genes (rDNA). Five species of Lentinus, three species in the Polyporaceae and two species in the Tricholomataceae were examined. Ribosomal DNA phenotypes were determined by restriction endonuclease digestion of enzymatically amplified rDNA (PCR fingerprinting). This method generates restriction fragment length polymorphism data without Southern blotting or autoradiography. With five different four-base restriction enzymes, one hundred and one unique restriction fragments were resolved. Among the 16 individuals studied, there were twelve different rDNA types. A similarity matrix based on presence or absence of comigrating restriction fragments was analyzed with UPGMA, complete and single-linkage analysis (using the NTSYS computer package), and Fitch-Margoliash and KITSCH analysis (using the PHYLIP computer package). Results of all analytical approaches were highly consistent and strongly suggest that Lentinus tigrinus is more closely related to the Polyporaceae than to the Tricholomataceae. Morphological characters (dimitic hyphac and hyphal pegs) also support this hypothesis. The other species of Lentinus appear to be intermediate between the Polyporaceae and Tricholomataceae and could not be clcarly assigned to either family. The results also suggest that Lentinus is paraphyletic and, therefore, that lamellae have arisen repeatedly by convergent evolution.

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