The evolution of asexual fungi: Reproduction, speciation and classification

Annual Review of Phytopathology

Volumn 37, Issue , 1999, Pages 197-246

  Taylor, J W ^a   Jacobson, D J ^b   Fisher, M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clonal; Heterothallic; Homothallic; Meiosporic; Mitosporic; Recombination

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032693223     PISSN: 00664286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.phyto.37.1.197     Document Type: Article

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