Phylogenetic analysis of a dataset of fungal 5.8S rDNA sequences shows that highly divergent copies of internal transcribed spacers reported from Scutellospora castanea are of ascomycete origin

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 238-244

  Redecker, Dirk ^a   Hijri, Mohamed ^b   Dulieu, Hubert ^c   Sanders, Ian R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

AM fungi; Arbuscular mycorrhiza; Ascomycete; Glomales; Internal transcribed spacers; Internuclear polymorphism; Phylogeny; Ribosomal DNA; Scutellospora castanea

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MYCORRHIZA; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCUTELLOSPORA;

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAE; ASCOMYCOTA; CASTANEA; FUNGI; GLOMERALES; MYXOGASTRIA; SCUTELLOSPORA; SCUTELLOSPORA CASTANEA;

EID: 0033493591     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/fgbi.1999.1173     Document Type: Article

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