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Table 2 Success rates per DNA extraction protocol used in this study, for all tested genera. Laboulbeniales from dried host insects were only extracted using the Extract-N-Amp Plant PCR Kit.

From: Bringing Laboulbeniales into the 21st century: enhanced techniques for extraction and PCR amplification of DNA from minute ectoparasitic fungi

 

QIAamp DNA Micro Kit

Extract-N-Amp Plant PCR Kit

 

# extractions

# success

# failed

% success

# extractions

# success

# failed

% success

Aphanandromyces

        

Chitonomyces

4

0

4

0 %

    

Gloeandromyces

    

1

1

0

100 %

Haplomyces

2

0

2

0 %

2

0

2

0 %

Herpomyces

    

13

12

1

92 %

Hesperomyces

17

6

11

35 %

35

23

12

66 %

Laboulbenia

4

0

4

0 %

5

1

4

20 %

Monoicomyces

        

Polyandromyces

    

2

2

0

100 %

Rhachomyces

        

Rickia

        

Zodiomyces

        

Herpomyces (dried)

    

2

0

2

0 %

Hesperomyces (dried)

    

5

3

2

60 %

Rodaucea (dried)

    

1

0

1

0 %

 

Heat-extraction protocol

ISOLATE II Plant DNA Kit

 

# extractions

# success

# failed

% success

# extractions

# success

# failed

% success

Aphanandromyces

    

1

0

1

0 %

Chitonomyces

        

Gloeandromyces

        

Haplomyces

        

Herpomyces

6

5

1

83 %

5

5

0

100 %

Hesperomyces

3

3

0

100 %

7

6

1

86 %

Laboulbenia

    

10

1

9

10 %

Monoicomyces

    

6

4

2

67 %

Polyandromyces

        

Rhachomyces

    

2

1

1

50 %

Rickia

11

5

6

45 %

    

Zodiomyces

    

3

3

0

100 %