Why mushrooms form gills: efficiency of the lamellate morphology

Fungal Biology

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 57-63

  Fischer, Mark W F ^a   Money, Nicholas P ^b  

^a College of Mount St Joseph ^*  (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agaricomycetes; Ballistospore; Basidiomycota; Basidiospore; Convergence; Hymenium

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; MODEL TEST; MUSHROOM; SPORULATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

AGARICALES; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FRUITING BODY; FUNGUS SPORE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGARICALES; FRUITING BODIES, FUNGAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPORES, FUNGAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BASIDIOMYCOTA;

EID: 77949918588     PISSN: 18786146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mycres.2009.10.006     Document Type: Article

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