An Antarctic hot spot for fungi at Shackleton's historic hut on Cape Royds

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-38

  Blanchette, Robert A ^a   Held, Benjamin W ^a   Arenz, Brett E ^a   Jurgens, Joel A ^a   Baltes, Nicolas J ^a   Duncan, Shona M ^a,b   Farrell, Roberta L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; FUNGUS; GENETICS; HOUSING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRAVEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WOOD;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, FUNGAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; EXPEDITIONS; FUNGI; HOUSING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PHYLOGENY; WOOD;

ANIMALIA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; CADOPHORA; CADOPHORA FASTIGIATA; CADOPHORA LUTEO-OLIVACEA; CADOPHORA MALORUM; CADOPHORA SP. 4E71-1; CHAETOMIUM; CLADOSPORIUM; CLADOSPORIUM MALORUM; FUNGI; GEOMYCES; NECTRIACEAE; ONYGENALES; PEZIZOMYCOTINA; PYGOSCELIS ADELIAE; SPHENISCIDAE; THIELAVIA;

EID: 77955424621     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-010-9664-z     Document Type: Article

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