Conserved regions in 18S eukaryotic rDNA and coverage percentages of predicted primers.

Conserved regions were identified using ARB software and a tool designed in this study. Potential primers were selected based on a sliding window of 16 nt. The coverage rates of these primers were averaged, and standard deviations (SD) were provided. The positions of the regions are in reference to the 18S rDNA sequence for Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Z75578). R: [A/G]; M: [A/C]; W[A/T]; K:[G/T];Y:[C/T].