Vertical and horizontal photobiont transmission within populations of a lichen symbiosis

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 3159-3172

  Dal Grande, F ^a,c   Widmer, I ^a,d   Wagner, H H ^b   Scheidegger, C ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^d Aix Marseille University Marseille   (France)

Author keywords

algae; ecological genetics; empirical; fungi; Lobaria pulmonaria; microsatellite; population genetics

Indexed keywords

ALGAL DNA; FUNGAL DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FUNGUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GREEN ALGA; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LICHEN (ORGANISM); MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

CHLOROPHYTA; DNA, ALGAL; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGI; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; LICHENS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; FUNGI; LOBARIA PULMONARIA; PULMONARIA;

EID: 84862766034     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05482.x     Document Type: Article

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