Analysis of the mating-type loci of co-occurring and phylogenetically related species of Ascochyta and Phoma

Molecular Plant Pathology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 350-362

  Woudenberg, Joyce H C ^a   De Gruyter, Johannes ^a,b   Crous, Pedro W ^a,b,c   Zwiers, Lute Harm ^a  

^a CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENETIC LOCI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ASCOCHYTA; ASCOCHYTA PINODES; CLEMATIS; DIDYMELLA; PHOMA; PHOMA PINODELLA; PISUM; PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 84859435213     PISSN: 14646722     EISSN: 13643703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2011.00751.x     Document Type: Article

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