Recombination within sympatric cryptic species of the insect pathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1361-1368

  Bidochka, Michael J ^a   Small, Cherrie Lee N ^a   Spironello, Michael ^b  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CANADA; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TEMPERATURE;

DNA, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; HYPOCREALES; ONTARIO; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

FUNGI; INSECTA; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE;

EID: 23944448096     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2005.00823.x     Document Type: Article

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