The first glance into the Glomus genome: An ancient asexual scandal with meiosis?

New Phytologist

Volumn 193, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 546-548

  Rosendahl, Søren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF); Evolution; Glomus; Meiosis; Recombination; Sex; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

GENETICS; GLOMEROMYCOTA; MYCORRHIZA; NOTE; SYMBIOSIS;

GLOMEROMYCOTA; MYCORRHIZAE; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARBUSCULAR; FUNGI; GLOMUS;

EID: 84855756610     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.04028.x     Document Type: Note

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