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<p>During a survey on plant-parasitic nematodes from South Africa, <italic>Scutellonema brachyurus</italic> was recovered from soil samples collected around the rhizosphere of wild grass in the North West and Limpopo provinces. This species characterized by a hemispherical lip region with four to six annuli, basal lip’s annuli with longitudinal incisures, body length 696–904 µm (a = 25.1–33.5; b = 5.0–7.2; c = 48.9–75.3; c’ = 0.5–0.9; V = 55–60), stylet 21–27 µm length, tail rounded with 10–19 µm length and spermatheca nonfunctional and male absent. The nblast analysis based on the D2-D3 segment of 28 S rDNA placed South African populations of <italic>S. brachyurus</italic> with 98% similarity to Greece (KU059494) and 99% similarity to South African (JX472052) <italic>S. brachyurus.</italic> Besides, nblast of COI of mtDNA showed 98% similarity of the test species with South African populations of <italic>S. brachyurus</italic> (JX472096; JX472097). The phylogenetic analysis put the South African populations of <italic>S. brachyurus</italic> together with other <italic>S. brachyurus</italic> with a 100 posterior probability support. Besides, the measurements, line illustration, and scanning electron microscopy photographs are provided for <italic>S. brachyurus</italic> from South Africa.</p>
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During a survey on plant-parasitic nematodes from South Africa, Scutellonema brachyurus was recovered from soil samples collected around the rhizosphere of wild grass in the North West and Limpopo provinces. This species characterized by a hemispherical lip region with four to six annuli, basal lip’s annuli with longitudinal incisures, body length 696–904 µm (a = 25.1–33.5; b = 5.0–7.2; c = 48.9–75.3; c’ = 0.5–0.9; V = 55–60), stylet 21–27 µm length, tail rounded with 10–19 µm length and spermatheca nonfunctional and male absent. The nblast analysis based on the D2-D3 segment of 28 S rDNA placed South African populations of S. brachyurus with 98% similarity to Greece (KU059494) and 99% similarity to South African (JX472052) S. brachyurus. Besides, nblast of COI of mtDNA showed 98% similarity of the test species with South African populations of S. brachyurus (JX472096; JX472097). The phylogenetic analysis put the South African populations of S. brachyurus together with other S. brachyurus with a 100 posterior probability support. Besides, the measurements, line illustration, and scanning electron microscopy photographs are provided for S. brachyurus from South Africa.

<article-title xml:lang="en">Morphological and molecular characters of <italic>Scutellonema brachyurus</italic> (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_jofnem-2021-027_ref_023">Steiner, 1938</xref>) <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_jofnem-2021-027_ref_002">Andrássy, 1958</xref> from South Africa

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Morphological and molecular characters of  ()  from South Africa

During a survey on plant-parasitic nematodes from South Africa, Scutellonema brachyurus was recovered from soil samples collected around the rhizosphere of...

Morphological and molecular characters of Scutellonema brachyurus (Steiner, 1938) Andrássy, 1958 from South Africa

Published Online: Jan 01, 2021

Page range: 1 - 13

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/jofnem-2021-027

Keywords
LSU rDNA, Morphology, mtDNA, South Africa, Phylogeny

© 2021 Authors, published by Sciendo.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Morphological and molecular characters of Scutellonema brachyurus (Steiner, 1938) Andrássy, 1958 from South Africa

Published Online: Jan 01, 2021

Page range: 1 - 13

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/jofnem-2021-027

KeywordsLSU rDNA, Morphology, mtDNA, South Africa, Phylogeny

© 2021 Authors, published by Sciendo.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
LSU rDNA, Morphology, mtDNA, South Africa, Phylogeny