Microcolonial rock inhabiting fungi and lichen photobionts: Evidence for mutualistic interactions

Mycological Research

Volumn 109, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1288-1296

  Gorbushina, Anna A ^a   Beck, Andreas ^b   Schulte, Anette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b BAVARIAN NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS; LICHEN; MUTUALISM;

ARTICLE; COCULTURE; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGUS; GREEN ALGA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LICHENS; MICROBIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGAE, GREEN; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGI; LICHENS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAE; FUNGI; MINK CELL FOCUS-FORMING VIRUS; TREBOUXIA;

EID: 26244464555     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0953756205003631     Document Type: Article

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