Shared ITS DNA substitutions in isolates of opposite mating type reveal a recombining history for three presumed asexual species in the filamentous ascomycete genus Alternaria

Mycological Research

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 169-182

  Berbee, Mary L ^a   Payne, Brendan P ^a   Zhang, Guojuan ^a   Roberts, Rodney G ^b   Turgeon, B Gillian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; DNA; EVOLUTION; FUNGUS; GENE; PHYLOGENETICS;

ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA BRASSICAE; ALTERNARIA BRASSICICOLA; ALTERNARIA TENUISSIMA; ASCOMYCOTA; EMBELLISIA; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; ULOCLADIUM;

EID: 0037314787     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0953756203007263     Document Type: Article

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