Community Analysis Reveals Close Affinities Between Endophytic and Endolichenic Fungi in Mosses and Lichens

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 340-353

  U'Ren, Jana M ^a   Lutzoni, François ^b   Miadlikowska, Jolanta ^b   Arnold, A Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGUS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LICHENS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOSS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAF; SYMBIOSIS; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ARIZONA; BIODIVERSITY; BRYOPHYTA; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FUNGI; LICHENS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS; TREES;

ALGAE; BRYOPHYTA; FUNGI; PEZIZOMYCOTINA;

EID: 77956877597     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-010-9698-2     Document Type: Article

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