Monophyly of the conifer species in the Ceratocystis coerulescens complex based on DNA sequence data

Mycologia

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 96-101

  Witthuhn, R C ^a   Wingfield, B D ^a   Wingfield, M J ^a   Wolfaardt, M ^a   Harrington, T C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ITS sequence; Phylogeny; Ribosomal DNA

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031912228     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3761017     Document Type: Article

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