Evolutionary relationships in Aspergillus section Fumigati inferred from partial β-tubulin and hydrophobin DNA sequences

Mycologia

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 831-845

  Geiser, David M ^a,c   Frisvad, Jens C ^b   Taylor, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eurotiales; Heterothallism; Morphology; Neosartorya; Secondary metabolites

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; BETA TUBULIN; COMBINING ABILITY; EVOLUTION; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL GROWTH; GENETIC CHARACTERISTICS; HYDROPHOBIN; MATING SYSTEM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OUTCROSSING; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; SELFING;

FUNGUS; PATHOGEN; PHYLOGENETICS;

ANIMALIA; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS CLAVATUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; EUROTIALES; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; NEOSARTORYA; NEOSARTORYA FISCHERI;

EID: 0031741483     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3761325     Document Type: Article

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