Target-specific PCR primers can detect and differentiate ophiostomatoid fungi from microbial communities associated with the mountain pine beetle Dendroctonus ponderosae

Fungal Biology

Volumn 114, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 825-833

  Khadempour, Lily ^a   Massoumi Alamouti, Sepideh ^a   Hamelin, Richard ^b   Bohlmann, Jörg ^a,c   Breuil, Colette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fungi; Mountain pine beetle; Ophiostomatoid; Ribosomal DNA; Target specific primer

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

BEETLE; FUNGUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; OPHIOSTOMATALES; PARASITOLOGY; PINE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; OPHIOSTOMATALES; PINUS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CERATOCYSTIOPSIS; CLAVIGERA; COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; FUNGI; LEPTOGRAPHIUM; LEPTOGRAPHIUM LONGICLAVATUM; OPHIOSTOMA; OPHIOSTOMA MONTIUM; PINUS CONTORTA; PINUS MUGO;

EID: 77957657101     PISSN: 18786146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2010.08.001     Document Type: Article

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