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Tree Health and Plant Biosecurity Initiative - Phytophthora ITS1 Classifier Tool
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Phytophthora sp. Kunnunara versus Kununurra? #472

Open peterjc opened 2 years ago

peterjc commented 2 years ago

We have this sequence in our ITS1 database: https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/EF437222

That was a direct submission in 2007 from Australia, which listed the species as Phytophthora sp. Kunnunara [sic], that’s with a double-n and single r. That was most likely propagated to create this NCBI taxonomy entry for Phytophthora cf. Kunnunara:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=2691822

However, this may be a typo for what was formally described a few years later as Phytophthora aff. Kununurra (with a single-n and double-r) named after the town where it was isolated from (Ord River Irrigation Area (ORIA), Kununurra, Australia):

Hüberli et al. (2013) Fishing for Phytophthora from Western Australia’s waterways: a distribution and diversity survey. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13313-012-0195-6

This could be two very similar species names from Australia, but seem more likely to be a typo. In which case we need to ask the NCBI to address this.

peterjc commented 2 years ago

From searching the literature for the submitter's name, the https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/EF437222 sequence was most likely deposited by James H. Cunnington, Primary Industries Research Victoria (PIRVic), Department of Primary Industries, Knoxfield Centre, Private Bag 15, Ferntree Gully Delivery Centre, Victoria 3156, Australia.

And we have an Australia government email address we could try to query this.

peterjc commented 9 months ago

I was unable to reach James via that address.