Confirmation and identification of parasitic stages of obligate endobionts (Harpellales) in blackflies (Simuliidae) by means of rRNA sequence data

Mycological Research

Volumn 110, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1070-1079

  WHITE, Merlin M ^a   LICHTWARDT, Robert W ^a   COLBO, Murray H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biocontrol; Diptera; Symbiosis; Trichomycetes; Zygomycota

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; RNA 18S; RNA 28S;

CLADISTICS; CYST; ENDOSYMBIONT; FLY; FUNGUS; GERMINATION; LIFE CYCLE; MORPHOLOGY; SPORE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FLY; FUNGUS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIFE CYCLE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OVARY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIMULIIDAE; SYMBIOSIS; ZYGOMYCETES;

ANIMALS; DNA, FUNGAL; FEMALE; FUNGI; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; OVARY; OVUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIMULIIDAE; SYMBIOSIS; ZYGOMYCOTA;

CANADA; NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DIPTERA; FUNGI; HARPELLA MELUSINAE; HARPELLALES; PROSIMULIUM MIXTUM; SIMULIIDAE; TRICHOMYCETES; ZYGOMYCETES; ZYGOMYCOTA;

EID: 33748630217     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: 14698102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mycres.2006.06.008     Document Type: Article

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