The intertidal marine lichen formed by the pyrenomycete fungus Verrucaria tavaresiae (Ascomycotina) and the brown alga Petroderma maculiforme (Phaeophyceae): Thallus organization and symbiont interaction

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 511-522

  Sanders, William B ^a,b   Moe, Richard L ^b   Ascaso, Carmen ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS AGRARIAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Haustoria; Marine lichen; Mycophycobiosis; Petroderma maculiforme; Phaeophyceae; Phycobiont; Pyrenomycetes; Verrucaria tavaresiae

Indexed keywords

INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LICHEN; SYMBIONT;

ALGAE; ASCOMYCOTA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; PETRODERMA MACULIFORME; PHAEOPHYCEAE; PYRENOMYCETES; VERRUCARIA; VERRUCARIA TAVARESIAE;

EID: 4544383750     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.91.4.511     Document Type: Article

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