First survey of arthropod gut fungi and associates from Vieques, Puerto Rico

Mycologia

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 896-903

  Hernández Roa, Jonatan J ^a   Virella, Carlos R ^a   Cafaro, Matías J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Caribbean; Eccrinales; Endosymbiont; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BIOGEOGRAPHY; ENDOSYMBIONT; FUNGUS; NEW SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGUS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PUERTO RICO; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; DATA COLLECTION; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGI; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; PUERTO RICO; SYMBIOSIS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

AMPHIPODA; ANADENOBOLUS ARBOREUS; ARTHROPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DIPLOPODA; ECCRINALES; ENTEROBRYUS; FUNGI; GLYCERIDAE; ISOPODA; OCYPODIDAE; SMITTIUM CULISETAE; TRICHOMYCETES; UCA RAPAX;

EID: 72449129482     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/08-187     Document Type: Article

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