Sex in the PAC: A hidden affair in dark septate endophytes?

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Zaffarano, Pascal L ^a   Queloz, Valentin ^a   Du, Angelo ^a   Grünig, Christoph R ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MICROSYNTH AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANCESTRY; CRYPSIS; ENDOPHYTE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; ROOT COLONIZATION; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; SPECIES COMPLEX;

ACEPHALA APPLANATA; ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGI; PHIALOCEPHALA FORTINII;

PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; REPRODUCTION;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 80053381682     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-282     Document Type: Article

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