A fossil Aspergillus from Baltic amber

Mycological Research

Volumn 109, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 956-960

  Dörfelt, Heinrich ^a   Schmidt, Alexander R ^b  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL; FUNGUS;

ASPERGILLUS; FUNGI;

EID: 24044448202     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0953756205003497     Document Type: Article

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