Fusarium solaniis responsible for mass mortalities in nests of loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta, in Boavista, Cape Verde

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 312, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 192-200

  Sarmiento Ramírez, Jullie M ^a   Abella, Elena ^b,c   Martín, María P ^a   Tellería, María T ^a   López Jurado, Luis F ^c   Marco, Adolfo ^b   Diéguez Uribeondo, Javier ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ascomycetes; Conservation; ITS rRNA gene; Loggerhead sea turtle; Pathogenic fungus

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME RNA; FUNGAL DNA;

BAYES THEOREM; CAPE VERDE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EGG SHELL; EMBRYO; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUSARIOSIS; FUSARIUM SOLANI; GENE SEQUENCE; INOCULATION; LETTER; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TURTLE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUSARIUM; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; OOCYTE; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ASCOMYCOTA; CARETTA; CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIIDAE; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM SOLANI; TESTUDINES;

ANIMALS; CAPE VERDE; DNA, FUNGAL; EGG SHELL; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FUSARIUM; MORTALITY; MYCOSES; OVUM; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TURTLES;

EID: 79251517104     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.02116.x     Document Type: Letter

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