Cyanobiont diversity within coralloid roots of selected cycad species

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 85-91

  Costa, José Luís ^a   Paulsrud, Per ^a   Lindblad, Peter ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cyanobacterium; Cycad; Diversity; Nostoc; Symbiosis; tRNA(Leu) intron

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIUM; HOST SPECIFICITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMBIONT;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NOSTOC; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIOSIS;

CYCAS; CYCAS CIRCINALIS; CYCAS RUMPHII; ENCEPHALARTOS; ENCEPHALARTOS LEBOMBOENSIS; ENCEPHALARTOS VILLOSUS; NOSTOC; ZAMIA; ZAMIA PUMILA;

EID: 0032947669     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6496(98)00095-6     Document Type: Article

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