Ascomycete phylotypes recovered from a Gulf of Mexico methane seep are identical to an uncultured deep-sea fungal clade from the Pacific

Fungal Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 270-273

  Thaler, Andrew David ^a   Van Dover, Cindy Lee ^a   Vilgalys, Rytas ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascomycota; Deep sea sediments; Gulf of Mexico; Marine fungi; Methane seep

Indexed keywords

ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 84857063717     PISSN: 17545048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2011.07.002     Document Type: Article

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