The diversity of Terfezia desert truffles: New species and a highly variable species complex with intrasporocarpic nrDNA ITS heterogeneity

Mycologia

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 841-853

  Kovács, Gábor M ^a   Balázs, Tímea K ^a   Calonge, Francisco D ^b   Martín, María P ^b  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ascomycota; Ascospores; Concerted evolution; Host specificity; ITS variability; Pezizaceae

Indexed keywords

ACID SOIL; ANATOMY; CLADISTICS; DECIDUOUS TREE; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; MORPHOLOGY; MUSHROOM; MYCORRHIZA; NEW SPECIES; NOMENCLATURE; SPECIES COMPLEX; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPORE;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MIDDLE EAST;

ARENARIA (CARYOPHYLLACEAE); ASCOMYCOTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOTA; PERIDIUM; PEZIZACEAE; QUERCUS; TERFEZIA; TERFEZIA ARENARIA; TERFEZIA CLAVERYI; TERFEZIA LEPTODERMA; TERFEZIA OLBIENSIS; TUBER (TRUFFLE);

FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DESERT CLIMATE; DNA SEQUENCE; FRUITING BODY; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HOST RANGE; MYCORRHIZA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BIODIVERSITY; DESERT CLIMATE; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FRUITING BODIES, FUNGAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST SPECIFICITY; MYCORRHIZAE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 80052535059     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/10-312     Document Type: Article

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