Research Article

The Short ITS2 Sequence Serves as an Efficient Taxonomic Sequence Tag in Comparison with the Full-Length ITS

Table 3

Identification efficiency of ITS and ITS2 by using BLAST.

MarkerSamplesGenusSpeciesLengthIdentification success at genus levelIdentification success at the species level

ITS1286116998313633.797.5%89.2%
ITS21286116998313232.693.8%79.2%