The mode of reproduction in natural populations of ascomycetous fungus, Emericella nidulans, from Israel

Genetics Research

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 83-90

  Hosid, E ^a   Grishkan, I ^a   Yusim, E ^a   Frenkel, Z ^a   Wasser, S P ^a   Nevo, E ^a   Korol, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRINUCLEOTIDE; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOTIC STRESS; CLONAL VARIATION; DESERT; EMERICELLA; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGUS; HAPLOTYPE; ISRAEL; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUALITY; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT; ADAPTATION; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENT; FUNGAL GENE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIODIVERSITY; EMERICELLA; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; ISRAEL; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS;

EID: 77954476780     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: 14695073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672310000066     Document Type: Article

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