Rhizidium phycophilum, a new species in Chytridiales

Mycologia

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 696-706

  Picard, Kathryn T ^a   Letcher, Peter M ^a   Powell, Martha J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

28S Rdna; Chytrid; Phylogeny; Vesicles; Zoospore

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FUNGUS; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RAINFOREST; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SPORE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

CHYTRIDIALES; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; RHIZIDIUM;

FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RNA 28S;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; NEW SOUTH WALES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPORES, FUNGAL; TREES;

EID: 70349563908     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/08-194     Document Type: Article

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