The Ajellomycetaceae, a new family of vertebrate-associated Onygenales

Mycologia

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 812-821

  Untereiner, Wendy A ^a   Scott, James A ^b,c   Naveau, Françoise A ^d   Sigler, Lynne ^e   Bachewich, Jason ^a   Angus, Andrea ^a  

^a BRANDON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Sporometrics Inc   (Canada)

^d Euroscreen SA   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ajellomyces; Blastomyces dermatitidis; Histoplasma capsulatum; Molecular systematics; rDNA sequences; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS; NEW TAXON; TAXONOMY;

AJELLOMYCES; AJELLOMYCES CAPSULATUS; AJELLOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; BLASTOMYCES; EMMONSIA; FUNGI; HISTOPLASMA; ONYGENACEAE; ONYGENALES; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 4444240536     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15572536.2005.11832928     Document Type: Article

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