Accelerated nrDNA evolution and profound AT bias in the medicinal fungus Cordyceps sinensis

Mycological Research

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 409-415

  Stensrud, Øyvind ^a   Schumacher, Trond ^a   Shalchian Tabrizi, Kamran ^a   Svegården, Ingeborg Bjorvand ^a   Kauserud, Håvard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Clavicipitaceae; Cryptic species; Entomogenous fungi; Molecular systematics

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RNA 5.8S;

EVOLUTION; FUNGUS; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GRASSLAND; LIFE HISTORY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MOTH; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CORDYCEPS; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOTH; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CORDYCEPS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOTHS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5.8S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CLAVICIPITACEAE; CORDYCEPS; CORDYCEPS SINENSIS; FUNGI; HEPIALIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 34249308839     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: 14698102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mycres.2007.01.015     Document Type: Article

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