Yeh, Zeng-Yung & May-Jane Chen. Notes on dictyostelid cellular slime molds from Taiwan (2): Dictyostelium exiguum and its ITS-5.8S rDNA sequences. Mycotaxon 89: 489-496. 2004.

ABSTRACT: During a survey of dictyostelid cellular slime molds in 2002, Dictyostelium exiguum was isolated from forest soils and was identified as new record for Taiwan. This isolate was morphologically examined and is illustrated in this text. The nucleotide sequences of internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions and 5.8S of ribosomal DNA were also analyzed. The D. exiguum sequence lengths of ITS 1, 5.8S, and ITS 2 were 250 bp, 170 bp and 461bp, respectively.

KEYWORDS: dictyostelids, ribosomal RNA gene