Phylogenetic relationship of ribosomal ITS2 and mitochondrial COI among diploid and triploid Paragonimus westermani isolates.
- Author:
Gab Man PARK
1
;
Kyung Il IM
;
Tai Soon YONG
Author Information
- Publication Type:Original Article
- MeSH: Animals; DNA, Mitochondrial/*genetics; DNA, Ribosomal Spacer/*genetics; *Diploidy; Electron Transport Complex IV/*genetics; Evolution, Molecular; Genes, Helminth/genetics; Korea; Paragonimus/*genetics; *Phylogeny; *Polyploidy
- From:The Korean Journal of Parasitology 2003;41(1):47-55
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
- Abstract: We compared patterns of intraspecific polymorphism of two markers with contrasting modes of evolution, nuclear ribosomal DNA (rDNA) and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), in the lung fluke, diploid and triploid Paragonimus westermani from three geographical regions of Korea. The genetic distances between three populations of Korean diploid and triploid P. westermani showed no significant difference in the nucleotide sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (mtCOI) and ribosomaal second internal transcribed spacer (ITS2) genes. A highly resolved strict-consensus tree was obtained that illustrated phylogenetically useful information of the ITS2 and mtCOI sequences from diploid and triploid P. westermani.
