The diversity and taxonomy of anaerobic gut fungi

Fungal Diversity

Volumn 4, Issue , 2000, Pages 37-51

  Ho, Y W ^a   Abdullah, N ^a   Jalaludin, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Anaerobic fungi; Diversity; Gut fungi; Phylogeny; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 6244229960     PISSN: 15602745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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