New species using 18S SSU rDNA and NCBI databases

07 August 2017 1 3K Report

Dear brilliant minds...I am relatively new to molecular taxonomy of ciliates and was wondering where one can find details for determining new species or genera for ciliates (Peritrichia) using the 18S SSU gene?

Thank you very much

Nicole Dames

Hey Gerhard,

A good place to start is to BLAST your 18S gene sequence against a known database (NCBI etc) and then make a phylogenetic tree (comparing a bunch of Petritrichia species 18S genes) to see closely related your sequence is to its closest relative.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Nicole

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