Photobiont association and genetic diversity of the optionally lichenized fungus Schizoxylon albescens

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 255-272

  Muggia, Lucia ^a   Baloch, Elisabeth ^b   Stabentheiner, Edith ^a   Grube, Martin ^a   Wedin, Mats ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b JODRELL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coccomyxa; Haplotype analysis; Lichenization; rbcL; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ALGA; CLADISTICS; COLONY; CULTIVATION; DECIDUOUS TREE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC MARKER; LICHEN; PHENOTYPE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMBIOSIS;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; ASPEN; CLASSIFICATION; FUNGAL GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GREEN ALGA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LICHENS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SWEDEN; SYMBIOSIS;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROPHYTA; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC VARIATION; LICHENS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POPULUS; SWEDEN; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAE; FUNGI; POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULA; PSEUDOCOCCOMYXA; SCHIZOXYLON;

EID: 78650778642     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2010.01002.x     Document Type: Article

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