Patent ID: 7384741

Claim:
A method of distinguishing species of Aspergillus from one another, wherein distinguishing species comprises detecting an internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS 1) nucleic acid sequence comprising (a) the nucleic acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 1 to identify Aspergillus clavatus; (b) the nucleic acid sequence set forth as one of SEQ ID NO: 2 or SEQ ID NO: 3 to identify Aspergillus granulosus; (c) the nucleic acid sequence set forth as one of SEQ ID NO: 4, SEQ ID NO: 5, SEQ ID NO: 6, SEQ ID NO: 7, SEQ ID NO: 8, or SEQ ID NO: 9 to identify Aspergillus sydowii ; or (d) the nucleic acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 16 to identify Aspergillus veriscolor thereby distinguishing the species of Aspergillus from other species of Aspergillus.