Limits of nuclear ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequences as species barcodes for Fungi

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 27, 2012, Pages

  Kiss, Levente ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME DNA;

FUNGUS; GENOME; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LETTER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME;

DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FUNGI;

FUNGI;

EID: 84863564562     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1207143109     Document Type: Letter

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