Significant genetic and phenotypic changes arising from clonal growth of a single spore of an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus over multiple generations

New Phytologist

Volumn 196, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 853-861

  Ehinger, Martine O ^a   Croll, Daniel ^a,b   Koch, Alexander M ^a,c   Sanders, Ian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Genetic diversity; Genetic variation; Glomus intraradices; Glomus irregulare; Mycorrhiza; Rhizophagus irregularis; Segregation; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; CLONAL GROWTH; FUNGUS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RESEARCH WORK; SPORE; SYMBIONT;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GIANT CELL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INHERITANCE; METABOLISM; MYCORRHIZA; PHENOTYPE; SYMBIOSIS;

ALLELES; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, FUNGAL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GIANT CELLS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MYCORRHIZAE; PHENOTYPE; SPORES, FUNGAL; SYMBIOSIS;

ARBUSCULAR; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; GLOMUS; GLOMUS INTRARADICES; RHIZOPHAGUS;

EID: 84867402342     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04278.x     Document Type: Article

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