Culture-Free Survey Reveals Diverse and Distinctive Fungal Communities Associated with Developing Figs (Ficus spp.) in Panama

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1073-1084

  Martinson, Ellen O ^a   Herre, Edward Allen ^b   Machado, Carlos A ^c   Arnold, A Elizabeth ^d  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; FICUS; FLOWER; FUNGUS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PANAMA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT SEED; POLLINATION; WASP;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FICUS; FLOWERS; FUNGI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PANAMA; PHYLOGENY; POLLINATION; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WASPS;

AGAONIDAE; CHALCIDOIDEA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; SACCHAROMYCOTINA;

EID: 84867672807     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-012-0079-x     Document Type: Article

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