No jacket required - new fungal lineage defies dress code: Recently described zoosporic fungi lack a cell wall during trophic phase

BioEssays

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 94-102

  James, Timothy Y ^a   Berbee, Mary L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chitin synthase; Cryptomycota; Evolution; Rozella; Rozellida

Indexed keywords

CHITIN SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; CELL WALL; CRYPTOMYCOTA; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; EVOLUTION; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGAL LIFE CYCLE STAGE; FUNGAL STRUCTURES; FUNGUS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; SPORANGIUM;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL WALL; CHITIN; CHITIN SYNTHASE; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGI; PHYLOGENY;

FUNGI; ROZELLA;

EID: 84855757857     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201100110     Document Type: Article

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