Morphological and molecular characterization of a rock inhabiting and rock decaying dematiaceous fungus isolated from antique monuments of Delos (Cyclades, Greece) and Chersonesus (Crimea, Ukraine)

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 329-335

  Sterflinger, Katja ^a   Gorbushina, Anna A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Morphology; Pleomorphism; Restriction analysis; Rock inhabiting dematiaceous fungi

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS; GREECE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; ROCK; TAXONOMY; UKRAINE;

CONIOSPORIUM; FUNGI; MONODICTYS;

EID: 0030857281     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0723-2020(97)80080-X     Document Type: Article

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