The complete Glomus intraradices mitochondrial genome sequence - A milestone in mycorrhizal research: Commentary

New Phytologist

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-6

  Franz Lang, B ^a   Hijri, Mohamed ^b  

^a Universite de Montreal   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; Genetic segregation; Intron evolution

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

FUNGAL GENOME; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GLOMEROMYCOTA; INTRON; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MYCORRHIZA; NOTE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME, FUNGAL; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GLOMEROMYCOTA; INTRONS; MYCORRHIZAE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

ARBUSCULAR; FUNGI; GLOMUS INTRARADICES;

EID: 66649134777     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02885.x     Document Type: Note

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