Lichen fungi have low cyanobiont selectivity in maritime Antarctica

New Phytologist

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 177-183

  Wirtz, Nora ^a   Lumbsch, H Thorsten ^a,b   Green, T G Allan ^c   Türk, Roman ^d   Pintado, Ana ^e   Sancho, Leopoldo ^e   Schroeter, Burkhard ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Lichens; Maritime Antarctica; Nostoc; Symbiont specificity; tRNALeu intron

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIUM; LICHEN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SYMBIONT;

ANTARCTICA;

CYANOBACTERIA; FUNGI; LEPTOGIUM; MASSALONGIA; MASSALONGIA CARNOSA; NOSTOC; PLACOPSIS; PLACOPSIS CONTORTUPLICATA; PLACOPSIS PARELLINA; PSOROMA;

EID: 0141683677     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.2003.00859.x     Document Type: Article

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