A new species of cellular slime mold from southern portugal based on morphology, ITS and SSU sequences

Mycologia

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 269-274

  Romeralo, M ^a   Baldauf, S L ^a   Cavender, J C ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular slime molds; Europe; Molecular data; Morphology; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; SLIME MOULD; TAXONOMY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ACRASIDA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DICTYOSTELIIDA; DICTYOSTELIUM;

RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PORTUGAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PORTUGAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 65549087055     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/08-113     Document Type: Article

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