Overview of 75 years of Smittium research, establishing a new genus for Smittium culisetae, and prospects for future revisions of the 'Smittium' clade

Mycologia

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 90-111

  Wang, Yan ^a   Tretter, Eric D ^a   Lichtwardt, Robert W ^b   White, Merlin M ^a  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Diptera; Early diverging fungi; Insecta; Kickxellomycotina; Symbiosis; Zygomycota

Indexed keywords

DIVERGENCE; ENDOSYMBIONT; FLY; FUNGUS; LARVA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NEW GENUS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; RESEARCH WORK; SPECIES RICHNESS; SYMBIOSIS; TAXONOMY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FUNGUS; GENETICS; HISTORY; INSECT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; FUNGI; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; INSECTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84874710098     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/11-311     Document Type: Article

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