The genetic structure of the cosmopolitan three-partner lichen Ramalina farinacea evidences the concerted diversification of symbionts

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 310-323

  del Campo, Eva M ^a   Catalá, Santiago ^b   Gimeno, Jacinta ^b   del Hoyo, Alicia ^a   Martínez Alberola, Fernando ^b   Casano, Leonardo M ^a   Grube, Martin ^c   Barreno, Eva ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

ITS; Lichen symbiosis; Phycobiont coexistence; Ramalina; rpb2; Trebouxia

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ALGA; COEXISTENCE; DIVERGENCE; EPIPHYTE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LICHEN; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SYMBIONT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CONFORMATION; EUROPE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GREEN ALGA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LICHEN (ORGANISM); PHYLOGENY; SPAIN; SYMBIOSIS;

ASCOMYCOTA; CHLOROPHYTA; EUROPE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; LICHENS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SPAIN; SYMBIOSIS;

CANARY ISLANDS; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SPAIN;

ALGAE; RAMALINA; RAMALINA FARINACEA; TREBOUXIA;

EID: 84871994455     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2012.01474.x     Document Type: Article

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