Secondary structure of ITS2 rRNA provides taxonomic characters for systematic studies - a case in Lycoperdaceae (Basidiomycota)

Mycological Research

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 316-330

  Krüger, Dirk ^a   Gargas, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Consensus structure; Internal transcribed spacer; ITS2 rDNA; Nomenclature

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA; FUNGUS; PHYLOGENETICS; RNA; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; BAYES THEOREM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CONFORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BASE SEQUENCE; BASIDIOMYCOTA; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; BOVISTA; CALVATIA; FUNGI; HANDKEA; LYCOPERDACEAE; MORGANELLA (FUNGUS); VASCELLUM;

EID: 40649118508     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: 14698102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mycres.2007.10.019     Document Type: Article

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