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To explore the fungal diversity in ruminant feces for bioenergy, libraries based on internal transcribed spacer (ITS), 18S rRNA, and 28S rRNA regions were constructed, respectively. Although the libraries were constructed from the same DNA extracts, the fungal taxa analyses based on these libraries are different. The ITS and 28S libraries comprised higher proportions of fungal clones than 18S libraries, and the ITS libraries converged into the lower diversities. The ITS libraries could be used to analyze the fungal community. The 18S libraries were suitable for the fungi and protozoa community. However, the 28S are suitable for analysis of Ascomycota fungi. The major fungal taxa in cattle feces analyzed by ITS, 18S, and 28S libraries are similar to those of sheep feces, respectively. The fungal taxa detected by the ITS library comprised only 20 % fungal taxa detected by the three libraries. The 18S library comprised 30 % fungal taxa; the 28S library comprised about 50 % fungal taxa. The results indicated that primer sets toward different DNA regions lead to the difference in structures of fungal community. So the selection of primer sets may influence the fungal communities, and libraries based on single primer sets may underestimate the fungal diversity. The comparison of ITS, 18S, and 28S libraries could fid more diverse fungi than that based on only one library.
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This work was supported by grants from the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation (Nos. 31170011 and. 51039007) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.
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Tan, H., Cao, L. Fungal diversity in sheep (Ovis aries) and cattle (Bos taurus) feces assessed by comparison of 18S, 28S and ITS ribosomal regions. Ann Microbiol 64, 1423–1427 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13213-013-0787-6
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