“…These methods include hybridization-based methods (Luo et al, 2005), polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based methods (Hseu et al, 1996;Luo et al, 2005;Zheng et al, 2007;Wu et al, 2009), and nuclear sequencing-based methods. These sequences contain the nucleotide sequences of a 25S-28S nuclear large subunit ribosomal DNA (rDNA) (Moncalvo et al, 1995a;Lee et al, 2006), 5.8S nuclear small subunit (SSU) rDNA (Latiffah et al, 2002), nuclear internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region rDNA (Moncalvo et al, 1995b;Gottlieb et al, 2000;Smith and Sivasithamparam, 2000;Latiffah et al, 2002), and a specific gene (Zhou et al, 2008) using nuclear sequencing-based methods. Although phylogenetic studies of nuclear rDNA sequences have provided insights into the relationships among Ganoderma species, the relationships between this genus and other genera of the Polyporaceae remain unclear.…”