Isolation and characterization of a novel chytrid species (phylum Blastocladiomycota), parasitic on the green alga Haematococcus

Mycological Research

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 70-81

  Hoffman, Yoram ^a   Aflalo, Claude ^a   Zarka, Aliza ^a   Gutman, Jenia ^a   James, Timothy Y ^b   Boussiba, Sammy ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Algal pathogen; Amoeboid swarmer; Infection; Life cycle; Parasite; Zoospore

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S;

DNA; EPIDEMIC; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNGUS; GREEN ALGA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTIVITY; LIFE CYCLE; PHYLOGENETICS; PROPAGULE; SPORE; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GREEN ALGA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ALGAE, GREEN; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; FUNGI; HAEMATOCOCCUS; HAEMATOCOCCUS PLUVIALIS; PHYSODERMA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 39649113105     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: 14698102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mycres.2007.09.002     Document Type: Article

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