Phylogeography of the cosmopolitan fungus Aspergillus flavus: Is everything everywhere?

Fungal Biology

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 452-463

  Ramírez Camejo, Luis A ^a   Zuluaga Montero, Anabella ^a   Lázaro Escudero, María ^a   Hernández Kendall, Verónica ^a   Bayman, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO RIO PIEDRAS   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

AFLP; Aspergillosis; Aspergillus flavus; Marine fungi; Mating type; Phylogeography; Substrate specificity

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ANIMAL; CLADISTICS; EUKARYOTE; FRAGMENTATION; FUNGUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; HABITAT TYPE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLANT; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RECOMBINATION; SUBSTRATE; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS; ANIMALS; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, FUNGAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLANTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 84857688100     PISSN: 18786146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2012.01.006     Document Type: Article

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