Zoospore ultrastructure and phylogenetic position of Phlyctochytrium aureliae Ajello is revealed (Chytridiaceae, Chytridiales, Chytridiomycota)

Mycologia

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 410-418

  Letcher, Peter M ^a   Powell, Martha J ^a   Picard, Kathryn T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apophysis; Chytrid; Habitat; Sporangial ornamentation

Indexed keywords

FOREST SOIL; FUNGUS; HABITAT QUALITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; ORNAMENTATION; PHYLOGENETICS; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SPORE; TAXONOMY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; CLASSIFICATION; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UNITED KINGDOM;

CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PHYLOGENY; SCOTLAND; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPORES, FUNGAL;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

CHYTRIDIACEAE; CHYTRIDIALES; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; CHYTRIDIUM; CHYTRIDIUM LAGENARIA; LAGENARIA; OLLA; PHLYCTOCHYTRIUM; PHLYCTOCHYTRIUM PLANICORNE;

EID: 84862317014     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/11-153     Document Type: Article

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