Molecular characterizations of the entomopathogenic nematodes, Heterorhabditis bacteriophora and Oscheius myriophilus from Iraq

Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control

Table 1 Pairwise comparison on the number of nucleotide differences among some of Heterorhabditis species and isolates with Heterorhabditis bacteriophora isolate IRQ.1 based on ITS rDNA sequences

	Heterorhabditis species	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
1	MK21446 Heterorhabditis bacteriophora IRQ1
2	KY031337 Heterorhabditis bacteriophora	0.002
3	EF469774 Heterorhabditis bacteriophora	0.002	0.003
4	KJ575524 Heterorhabditis bacteriophora	0.003	0.002	0.005
5	MF033536 Heterorhabditis bacteriophora	0.006	0.008	0.005	0.009
6	EU598237 Heterorhabditis bacteriophora	0.006	0.005	0.008	0.006	0.012
7	MF197881 Heterorhabditis indica	0.309	0.311	0.306	0.314	0.309	0.319
8	KY977412 Heterorhabditis indica	0.311	0.314	0.309	0.316	0.307	0.321	0.002