Adaptation of the spore discharge mechanism in the Basidiomycota

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Stolze Rybczynski, Jessica L ^a   Cui, Yunluan ^a   Stevens, M Henry H ^a   Davis, Diana J ^a,b   Fischer, Mark W F ^b   Money, Nicholas P ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b College of Mount St Joseph ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNGUS SPORE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI; UREDINALES;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 58349105818     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004163     Document Type: Article

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