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ITS Region

Definition

Internal transcribed spacer region, flanking the 5.8S rRNA gene between the 18S and 28S subunits in fungi and plants. The ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 fragment (~550-700 bp) is the standard fungal barcode, curated in the UNITE database.

Related terms

16S rRNA
The small-subunit ribosomal RNA gene in bacteria (~1,550 bp). The V3-V4 hypervariable region (~470 bp) is amplified with universal bacterial primers for...
BOLD Systems
Barcode of Life Data System (University of Guelph, Canada). Holds over 9 million COI reference barcodes linked to voucher specimens, with mandatory...
COI (COX1)
Cytochrome-c oxidase subunit I gene. The 658-base-pair Folmer fragment is the globally adopted barcode-of-life marker for animals, curated in BOLD Systems and...
Cytochrome B (Cyt B)
A mitochondrial protein-coding gene widely used in forensic species identification before COI barcoding was standardised. Still used because its reference database for...
PCR-RFLP
PCR followed by restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. A restriction enzyme cuts the amplicon at species-specific recognition sites; the resulting fragment pattern...
SILVA
Curated ribosomal RNA sequence database (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen). Provides quality-filtered 16S, 18S, 23S, and 28S reference alignments for...

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