A nomenclature for fungal PCR primers with examples from intron-containing SSU rDNA

Mycologia

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 745-748

  Gargas, Andrea ^a,b   DePriest, Paula T ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

18S rDNA; Eumycota; Fungi

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030451574     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3760969     Document Type: Article

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