Extraordinary ribosomal spacer length heterogeneity in a neotyphodium endophyte hybrid: Implications for concerted evolution

Genetics

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1625-1637

  Ganley, Austen R D ^a   Scott, Barry ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSING OVER; ENDOPHYTE; EVOLUTION; FUNGUS; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GRASS; HYBRID; MITOSIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ACREMONIUM; ASCOMYCOTA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POACEAE;

EPICHLOE TYPHINA; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; NEOTYPHODIUM; NEOTYPHODIUM LOLII;

EID: 0031732104     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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