Fungal endophytes of grasses: Hybrids rescued by vertical transmission? An evolutionary perspective

New Phytologist

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 452-458

  Selosse, M A ^a   Schardl, C L ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCOMYCETES; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EVOLUTION; FUNGUS HYPHAE; HYBRIDIZATION; LETTER; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; SYMBIOSIS;

ASCOMYCOTA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; EVOLUTION; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; HYPHAE; POACEAE; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SYMBIOSIS;

POACEAE;

EID: 33846261954     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.01978.x     Document Type: Letter

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