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Table 1 Wild amicronucleates among named species

From: Abandoning sex: multiple origins of asexuality in the ciliate Tetrahymena

 

Number

Number wild cox1 haplotypes

  

Species

Wild isolates

Mic

Amic

Mic

Amic

Shared

% amic cox1 identity to type

ATCC type strain

T. borealis

62

25

37

2

8

5

98.5-100

30317

T. canadensis

22

16

6

7

5

1

99.1-99.6

30368

T. elliotti

87

49

35

10

8

5

 

nda

T. furgasoni

1

0

1

na

1

na

99.2

30006

T. mobilis

6

0

6

na

4

na

99.1-99.9

CCAP1630/22b

T. pyriformis

13

0

13

na

4

na

99.7-99.9

30327

T. shanghaiensis

1

0

1

na

1

na

99.2

205039

T. thermophila

10709

147

8

15

4

1

98.0-100

SB210c

T. tropicalis

9

1

8

na

7

1

96.4-97.1

30276

T. vorax

28

0

28

na

2

na

99.9-100

30421

NI/SSU/RA/CO

4

0

4

na

4

na

na

nd

  1. Mic, possessing a micronucleus.
  2. Amic, not possessing a micronucleus.
  3. na, not applicable.
  4. ATTC, American Type Culture Collection, Bethesda, MD.
  5. aType strain not designated.
  6. bCCAP, Culture Collection of Algae and Protists, Scotland, UK.
  7. cSB210, [GenBank:AF396436].