Molecular Evidence of Fungal Signatures in the Marine Protist Corallochytrium limacisporum and its Implications in the Evolution of Animals and Fungi

Protist

Volumn 157, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 363-376

  Sumathi, J Cathrine ^a   Raghukumar, Seshagiri ^a   Kasbekar, Durgadas P ^b   Raghukumar, Chandralata ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^b CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Corallochytrium limacisporum; marine protist; sterol C 14 reductase; aminoadipate reductase

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; CHOANOZOA; CORALLOCHYTRIUM; CORALLOCHYTRIUM LIMACISPORUM; FUNGI; FUNGI/METAZOA GROUP; PROTISTA;

EID: 33749449028     PISSN: 14344610     EISSN: 16180941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2006.05.003     Document Type: Article

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