Microsporidia: a journey through radical taxonomical revisions

Fungal Biology Reviews

Volumn 23, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 1-8

  Corradi, Nicolas ^a   Keeling, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complexity; Genome reduction; Microsporidia; Phylogeny; Simplicity; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MICROSPORIDIA;

EID: 70649104052     PISSN: 17494613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fbr.2009.05.001     Document Type: Review

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