Correlation of mycelial growth rate with other phenotypic characters in evolved genotypes of Aspergillus nidulans

Fungal Biology

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 630-636

  Schoustra, Sijmen ^a,b   Punzalan, David ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Colony forming units; Diploids; Experimental evolution; Fitness measurements; Fungal biomass

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COLONY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; FUNGUS; GROWTH RATE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SELECTION;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; KINETICS; MYCELIUM; PHENOTYPE;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; GENOTYPE; KINETICS; MYCELIUM; PHENOTYPE;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI;

EID: 84860438399     PISSN: 18786146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2012.03.002     Document Type: Article

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