Chaenothecopsis khayensis, a new resinicolous calicioid fungus on African mahogany

Mycologia

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 610-615

  Tuovila, Hanna ^a   Cobbinah, Joseph R ^b   Rikkinen, Jouko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FORESTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Exudate; Insect dispersal; Mycocaliciales; Resinicolous fungi

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; EVERGREEN TREE; EXUDATION; FUNGUS; LARVA; MOTH; NEW SPECIES; RESIN;

GHANA;

ASCOMYCOTA; CHAENOTHECOPSIS; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; HYPSIPYLA; HYPSIPYLA ROBUSTA; KHAYA ANTHOTHECA; LEPIDOPTERA; MYCOCALICIACEAE; MYCOCALICIALES; SPHINCTRINA LEUCOPODA; SWIETENIA;

FUNGAL DNA; PLANT RESIN; RIBOSOME DNA;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETICS; LARVA; MELIACEAE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOTH; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TREE; WOOD;

AFRICA, WESTERN; ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; LARVA; MELIACEAE; MOTHS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESINS, PLANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPORES, FUNGAL; TREES; WOOD;

EID: 80052390281     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/10-194     Document Type: Article

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