Photobiont diversity in lichens from metal-rich substrata based on ITS rDNA sequences

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 603-612

  Bačkor, Martin ^a   Peksa, Ondřej ^b,c   Škaloud, Pavel ^c   Bačkorová, Miriam ^a  

^a P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^b West Bohemian Museum in Pilsen   (Czech Republic)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Algae; Asterochloris; Cu; Heavy metals; Metal tolerance; Metal toxicity; Trebouxia

Indexed keywords

COPPER; HEAVY METAL; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME DNA;

ALGA; COPPER; DNA; ECOTOXICOLOGY; GENOTYPE; HEAVY METAL; LICHEN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; POLLUTION TOLERANCE; SUBSTRATE; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAL GROWTH; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLADONIA; CONTAMINATED PLANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENOTYPE; LICHENS; METAL TOLERANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; STEREOCAULON; SYMBIOSIS; THALLUS; TREBOUXIA HYPOGYMNIAE;

ALGAE, GREEN; ASCOMYCOTA; BIODIVERSITY; COPPER; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; LICHENS; MINING; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAE; ASTEROCHLORIS; CLADONIA; STEREOCAULON; TREBOUXIA;

EID: 77951652723     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2009.11.002     Document Type: Article

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