Taxonomy and phylogeny of new wood- and soil-inhabiting Sporothrix species in the Ophiostoma stenoceras-Sporothrix schenckii complex

Mycologia

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 647-661

  De Meyer, Elsie M ^a   De Beer, Z Wilhelm ^a   Summerbell, Richard C ^b   Moharram, A M ^c   De Hoog, G Sybren ^d   Vismer, Hester F ^e   Wingfield, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b Sporometrics Inc   (Canada)

^c ASSIUT UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^e SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Human pathogen; Ophiostomatales; Sporotrichosis

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS TREE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; NOMENCLATURE; PHYLOGENY; TAXONOMY; WOOD;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

FUNGI; HEXAPODA; HUMICOLA; OPHIOSTOMA; OPHIOSTOMA STENOCERAS; OPHIOSTOMATALES; SPOROTHRIX; SPOROTHRIX NIVEA; SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOUTH AFRICA; SPOROTHRIX; SPOROTRICHOSIS; WOOD;

HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOUTH AFRICA; SPOROTHRIX; SPOROTRICHOSIS; WOOD;

EID: 54049155685     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/07-157R     Document Type: Article

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