Phylogenetic
relationships among different isolates belonging to the Ustilaginomycetes
and their plant hosts. The consensus trees are
generated with parsimony analysis in PAUP. Refer to TreeBASE
study accession number S430. Outgroups are indicated
by asterisks and numbers in bold above nodes refer to bootstrap values in
percent; numbers below branches indicate the number of character changes
between branches (branch lengths not to scale). Following the fungal species
name, the major known Graminaceous host(s)
is given in parentheses. The tree on top is based on ITS sequence alignments
(CI = 0.924, RI = 0.890, tree length = 542). The tree in the middle is based on
AFLP data (CI = 0.732, RI = 0.700, tree length = 250). At the bottom, a tree
showing a tentative phylogeny of some Graminaceous
hosts, improvised from literature data, is depicted. Note that sorghum and
maize can both be hosts of U. scitaminea upon
experimental inoculation procedures. See Bakkeren
et al. 2000.