Exophiala crusticola anam. nov. (affinity Herpotrichiellaceae), a novel black yeast from biological soil crust in the Western United States

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2697-2702

  Bates, Scott T ^a   Reddy, Gundlapally S N ^a   Garcia Pichel, Ferran ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXOPHIALA; EXOPHIALA CRUSTICOLA; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SOIL; UNITED STATES;

DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EXOPHIALA; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OREGON; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; UTAH;

ASCOMYCOTA; CAPRONIA CORONATA; CHAETOTHYRIALES; EXOPHIALA; FUNGI; HERPOTRICHIELLACEAE;

EID: 33751224764     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.64332-0     Document Type: Article

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