Homothallism and heterothallism in Sordaria brevicollis

Mycological Research

Volumn 102, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1215-1223

  Robertson, Susan J ^a   Bond, D Jeff ^a   Read, Nick D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SORDARIA BREVICOLLIS;

EID: 0031671788     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0953756298006297     Document Type: Article

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