TY - JOUR AU - Ghikas, Dimitri V. AU - Kouvelis, Vassili N. AU - Typas, Milton A. PY - 2010 DA - 2010/06/16 TI - Phylogenetic and biogeographic implications inferred by mitochondrial intergenic region analyses and ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 of the entomopathogenic fungi Beauveria bassiana and B. brongniartii JO - BMC Microbiology SP - 174 VL - 10 IS - 1 AB - The entomopathogenic fungi of the genus Beauveria are cosmopolitan with a variety of different insect hosts. The two most important species, B. bassiana and B. brongniartii, have already been used as biological control agents of pests in agriculture and as models for the study of insect host - pathogen interactions. Mitochondrial (mt) genomes, due to their properties to evolve faster than the nuclear DNA, to contain introns and mobile elements and to exhibit extended polymorphisms, are ideal tools to examine genetic diversity within fungal populations and genetically identify a species or a particular isolate. Moreover, mt intergenic region can provide valuable phylogenetic information to study the biogeography of the fungus. SN - 1471-2180 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-10-174 DO - 10.1186/1471-2180-10-174 ID - Ghikas2010 ER -