Spore to spore culture of Didymium operculatum, a new myxomycete from the Atacama Desert of Chile

Mycologia

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 895-903

  de Basanta, D Wrigley ^a   Lado, C ^a   Estrada Torres, A ^b  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b CENTRO TLAXCALA DE BIOLOGÍA DE LA CONDUCTA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Agar culture; Amoebozoa; Copiapoa; Eumycetozoa; Morphogenesis; SEM; Taxonomy; Xeric

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGAR; ARID REGION; BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; CACTUS; COLONIZATION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; LIFE CYCLE; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; ORNAMENTATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SLIME MOULD; SPORE; TAXONOMY;

ATACAMA DESERT; CHILE;

AMOEBOZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CACTACEAE; COPIAPOA; DIDYMIUM; MYCETOZOA; MYXOGASTRIA;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHILE; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DESERT CLIMATE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; MYCOLOGY; MYXOGASTRIA; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTOZOAN SPORE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BIODIVERSITY; CHILE; DESERT CLIMATE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MORPHOGENESIS; MYCOLOGY; MYXOMYCETES; SPORES, PROTOZOAN;

EID: 80052524667     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/10-363     Document Type: Article

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