Rapid evolutionary changes in a globally invading fungal pathogen (Dutch elm disease)

Biological Invasions

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 223-233

  Brasier, C M ^a   Buck, K W ^b  

^a FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dutch elm disease; Elms; Episodic selection; Fungal viruses; Horizontal gene flow

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DISEASE SPREAD; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FUNGAL DISEASE; GENE FLOW;

FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; OPHIOSTOMA; OPHIOSTOMA NOVO-ULMI; OPHIOSTOMA ULMI; ULMACEAE; ULMUS;

EID: 0035562484     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015248819864     Document Type: Conference Paper

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