Successful DNA sequencing of a 75 year-old herbarium specimen of Aspicilia aschabadensis (J. Steiner) Mereschk.

Lichenologist

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 626-628

  Sohrabi, Mohammad ^a,b,c   Myllys, Leena ^a   Stenroos, Soili ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

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Indexed keywords

ASPICILIA;

EID: 77957224815     PISSN: 00242829     EISSN: 10961135     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0024282910000344     Document Type: Article

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