Prevalence of interspecific hybrids amongst asexual fungal endophytes of grasses

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1455-1467

  Moon, C D ^a,e   Craven, K D ^b,e   Leuchtmann, A ^c   Clement, S L ^d,f   Schardl, C L ^e,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^f AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^g Harry E Wheeler Chair Plant Mycol   (United States)

Author keywords

Endophytic fungi; Epichlo ; Interspecific hybrids; Mutualism; Neotyphodium; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST DNA; ELONGATION FACTOR 1; MICROSATELLITE DNA; TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; GENOME; GEOGRAPHY; HYBRIDIZATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; REPRODUCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYMBIOSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME, FUNGAL; GEOGRAPHY; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; HYPOCREALES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; PHYLOGENY; POACEAE; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS; TUBULIN;

ASCOMYCOTA; EPICHLOE; FUNGI; NEOTYPHODIUM; POACEAE;

EID: 2542498112     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2004.02138.x     Document Type: Article

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