Sexual structures in Aspergillus: Morphology, importance and genomics

Medical Mycology

Volumn 47, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Geiser, David M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cleistothecium; Emericella; Neosartorya

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; ASEXUAL SPORE; ASPERGILLUS; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNGAL REPRODUCTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SEXUAL SPORE; SPOROGENESIS; CYTOLOGY; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETICS; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA; EUROTIALES; NEOSARTORYA;

ASPERGILLUS; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 67651099230     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13693780802139859     Document Type: Article

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