Reclassification of a pneumocandin-producing anamorph, Glarea lozoyensis gen. et sp. nov., previously identified as Zalerion arboricola

Mycological Research

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 179-192

  Bills, Gerald F ^a   Platas, Gonzalo ^b   Peláez, Fernando ^b   Masurekar, Prakash ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Medical affairs Merck sharp and Dohme ltd   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FINGERPRINTING; DRUG IDENTIFICATION; FERMENTATION MONITORING; PNEUMOCANDIN; RIBOSOMAL DNA;

FUNGI; GLAREA LOZOYENSIS; HELOTIALES; HYMENOSCYPHUS MONOTROPAE; LULWORTHIA UNISEPTATA; ZALERION ARBORICOLA; ZALERION MARITIMUM; ZALERION VARIUM;

EID: 0032970888     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095375629800687X     Document Type: Article

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