Diversity and evolutionary origins of fungi associated with seeds of a neotropical pioneer tree: a case study for analysing fungal environmental samples

Mycological Research

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 432-449

  U'Ren, Jana M ^a   Dalling, James W ^b   Gallery, Rachel E ^b   Maddison, David R ^a   Davis, E Christine ^c   Gibson, Cara M ^a   Arnold, A Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment; Ancestral state reconstruction; Ascomycota; Barro Colorado Island; Endophytes; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

EVOLUTION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FUNGUS; GERMINATION; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPORULATION; SURVIVAL; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CECROPIA; CLASSIFICATION; FUNGUS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT SEED; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BIODIVERSITY; CECROPIA PLANT; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEEDS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

BARRO COLORADO ISLAND; CENTRAL AMERICA; GATUN LAKE; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

ASCOMYCOTA; CECROPIA; CECROPIA INSIGNIS; FUNGI; URTICACEAE;

EID: 63049115867     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: 14698102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mycres.2008.11.015     Document Type: Article

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