Mycoviruses in the Aspergilli

Aspergillus in the Genomic Era

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 133-176

  Van Diepeningen, Anne D ^a   Varga, János ^b,c   Hoekstra, Rolf F ^a   Debets, Alfons J M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Double stranded RNA; Dynamics; Mycoviruses

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956229019     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-635-9     Document Type: Chapter

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