Asterotremella gen. nov. albida, an anamorphic tremelloid yeast isolated from the agarics Asterophora lycoperdoides and Asterophora parasitica

Journal of General and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 167-175

  Prillinger, Hansjörg ^a   Lopandic, Ksenija ^a   Sugita, Takashi ^b   Wuczkowski, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b MEIJI PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

18S 26S ITS IGS r DNA; Asterotremella gen. nov. albida; Asterotremellaceae fam. nov.; Cryptococcus humicola; Hymenomycetes; Tremellales; Trichosporonales

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA 18S; DNA 26S; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; UBIQUINONE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 26S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASTEROPHORA LYCOPERDOIDES; ASTEROPHORA PARASITICA; ASTEROTREMELLA ALBIDA; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS HUMICOLA; CRYPTOCOCCUS LONGUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS MUSCI; CRYPTOCOCCUS PSEUDOLONGUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS RAMIREZGOMEZIANUS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; NEW GENUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRICHOSPORON; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; YEAST; BASIDIOMYCETES; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; TRANSPOSON;

ASTEROPHORA AGARICOIDES; ASTEROPHORA PARASITICA; ASTEROTREMELLA; ASTEROTREMELLA PARASITICA; CRYPTOCOCCUS (CYSTOFILOBASIDIALES); CRYPTOCOCCUS (FILOBASIDIALES); CRYPTOCOCCUS (TREMELLALES); CRYPTOCOCCUS (TREMELLOMYCETIDAE); CRYPTOCOCCUS (TRICHOSPORONALES); CRYPTOCOCCUS HUMICOLA; CRYPTOCOCCUS LONGUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS MUSCI; CRYPTOCOCCUS PSEUDOLONGUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS RAMIREZGOMEZIANUS; HYMENOMYCETES; TREMELLALES; TRICHOSPORONALES;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; CRYPTOCOCCUS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; TRICHOSPORON;

EID: 34548815677     PISSN: 00221260     EISSN: 13498037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2323/jgam.53.167     Document Type: Article

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