Two new homothallic species of Mortierella, M. cogitans, and M. microzygospora, and their zygospore formation

Mycologia

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1040-1046

  Degawa, Yousuke ^a,b   Tokumasu, Seiji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b KANAGAWA PREFECTURAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anisogamy; Mucorales; New species; Taxonomy; Zygomycetes

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL SPORE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; SPOROGENESIS; TAXONOMY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; MORTIERELLA; MORTIERELLA COGITANS; MORTIERELLA MICROZYGOSPORA; MUCORALES; ZYGOMYCETES;

EID: 0032534811     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3761278     Document Type: Article

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