Diversity and Characterization of Culturable Fungi from Marine Sediment Collected from St. Helena Bay, South Africa

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 311-319

  Mouton, Marnel ^a   Postma, Ferdinand ^a   Wilsenach, Jac ^b   Botha, Alfred ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; SEA WATER;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGUS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN CYCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEDIMENT; SOUTH AFRICA;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BIODIVERSITY; CULTURE MEDIA; FUNGI; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN CYCLE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTH AFRICA;

FUNGI;

EID: 84864335067     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-012-0035-9     Document Type: Article

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