Ecological constraints limit the fitness of fungal hybrids in the Heterobasidion annosum species complex

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 6106-6111

  Garbelotto, Matteo ^a   Gonthier, Paolo ^b   Nicolotti, Giovanni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FUNGI; GENES;

ECOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS; FUNGAL HYBRIDS; INTERSPECIFIC POSTZYGOTIC ISOLATION MECHANISMS; SPECIES BOUNDARIES;

MICROBIOLOGY;

FITNESS; FUNGUS; GENOTYPE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ARTICLE; GENOTYPE; HETEROBASIDIOMYCETES; HETEROBASIDION ANNOSUM; HOST RANGE; HYBRID; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SYMBIOSIS;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SPECIATION; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC;

FUNGI; HETEROBASIDION; HETEROBASIDION ANNOSUM; HETEROBASIDION ANNOSUM SPECIES COMPLEX;

EID: 35148839872     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01135-07     Document Type: Article

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